Founding Forward-Deployed Engineering Lead

Xcede; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Xcede in New York City is seeking a seasoned Founding Forward Deployed Engineer to act as technical lead on high-stakes deployments, owning both technical and business value outcomes end-to-end. You will set the bar for customer engagement and deployments of our technology, helping establish the foundation for deployment.

You will ramp quickly toward management responsibilities and help grow a team that can operate under pressure to deliver meaningful outcomes for customers.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of engineering or technical delivery experience.
• 0→1 experience building reusable capabilities under ambiguity.
• Led high-pressure technical projects from prototype to production.

Responsibilities

• Act as the technical lead for customer engagements, owning problems end-to-end from definition to resolution.
• Operate with agency, delivering outcomes through clarity, speed, tight coordination, and high technical quality.
• Guide deployment strategy and help define the operating model for swift, safe execution.
• Define and build deployment primitives that increase both customer impact and engagement velocity.
• Operate as a player-coach, setting a high bar for execution while helping grow the team through direct, actionable feedback.
• Codify successful patterns into tools, playbooks, and roadmap inputs that create leverage for the firm.
• Identify early signals and elevate them with urgency—whether in product behavior, customer environments, or delivery practices.

Skills

Technical leadership

Deployment engineering

Client engagement

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Job description

Xcede in New York City is seeking a seasoned Founding Forward Deployed Engineer to act as technical lead on high-stakes deployments, owning both technical and business value outcomes end-to-end. You will set the bar for customer engagement and deployments of our technology, helping establish the foundation for deployment.

You will ramp quickly toward management responsibilities and help grow a team that can operate under pressure to deliver meaningful outcomes for customers.