Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer for Revenue Platforms

Business Needs Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Business Needs Inc. in New York City seeks a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer to own end-to-end technical deployments of our revenue platform into enterprise environments.

You will bridge messy data warehouses with production-ready agent workflows, translating tribal business knowledge into validated data models and driving measurable revenue outcomes. As a foundational member of a small team, you will work directly with customers to scope data access, map schemas, and deploy agent pipelines

Qualifications

• End-to-end deployments in a technical role.
• Shipped production data pipelines independently.
• Deep SQL and data warehouse fluency.

Responsibilities

• Onboard customers end-to-end: scope data access and map schemas to business concepts.
• Build and validate semantic/ontology layer with stakeholders and translate to SQL queries.
• Deploy platform workflows and agent pipelines into customer environments and monitor outcomes.
• Manage 2–3 concurrent engagements with customer data and engineering teams.
• Provide feedback to engineering on eval guardrails and agent harness.

Skills

SQL

Data wrangling

Data warehouse fluency

AI tooling

Stakeholder management

Education

BS in CS/Data Science/Statistics

Tools

Claude

Cursor

Job description

Business Needs Inc. in New York City seeks a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer to own end-to-end technical deployments of our revenue platform into enterprise environments.

You will bridge messy data warehouses with production-ready agent workflows, translating tribal business knowledge into validated data models and driving measurable revenue outcomes. As a foundational member of a small team, you will work directly with customers to scope data access, map schemas, and deploy agent pipelines