Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer, Applied AI

Raydar; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive equity

Founding-level ownership

Direct access to founders

Job summary

Raydar is seeking a founding Forward Deployed Engineer in the United States to build and deploy applied-AI products across portfolio companies, translating business problems into AI workflows and owning deployment lifecycles from zero to production.

You will work on-site with executive buyers and technical teams, helping to establish engineering standards and collaborate with founders to define the applied-AI strategy. Expect frequent travel and direct access to leadership.

Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years of hands-on software engineering or forward-deployed engineering experience.
• Track record leading technical deployments from discovery through production and adoption.
• Strong full-stack engineering, systems architecture, and data-pipeline fundamentals.
• Experience building with LLMs, applied machine learning, or AI workflow systems.
• Ability to work directly with C-level customers and translate ambiguous operational needs into shipped products.
• Founder-minded ownership, autonomy, and comfort operating without extensive structure.
• Willingness to travel frequently to customer sites.

Responsibilities

• Run discovery with executives and operators, translate business problems into product specifications, and build AI workflows from scratch.
• Own full deployment lifecycles from zero-to-one implementation through customer adoption.
• Work on-site with customer decision-makers and technical teams across portfolio companies.
• Build shared data models, ontologies, and workflow infrastructure that connect deployments into reusable vertical products.
• Partner directly with the co-founders, Head of AI, and portfolio CTO to define and execute the applied-AI strategy.
• Help establish the Forward Deployed Engineering pod, operating model, and technical standards.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Systems architecture

Data pipelines

Deployment experience

LLMs / AI workflows

Customer-facing

Job description

Raydar is seeking a founding Forward Deployed Engineer in the United States to build and deploy applied-AI products across portfolio companies, translating business problems into AI workflows and owning deployment lifecycles from zero to production.

You will work on-site with executive buyers and technical teams, helping to establish engineering standards and collaborate with founders to define the applied-AI strategy. Expect frequent travel and direct access to leadership.