Lead Forward Deployed Engineer

AI Chopping Block, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

AI Chopping Block, Inc. is seeking a senior-level customer-facing engineer to embed with customers and help scale our AI-native supply-chain platform.

You will map how clients operate, identify growth breakpoints, and configure automation within SP Studio to reflect real needs. You will own accounts, set technical directions with executives and IT, mentor engineers, and lead field deployments across weekly on-site visits while relocating to San Francisco.

Qualifications

• Owned customer-facing technical work with demonstrable results.
• Own the account: set technical direction with execs/IT and push back when needed.
• Make scoping and trade-off calls independently without sign-off.
• Mentored or managed engineers; accountable for team outcomes on accounts.
• Strong full-stack skills: TypeScript, frontend framework, SQL; ship production code weekly.

Responsibilities

• Travel weekly and relocate full-time to San Francisco; not a remote role.
• Map how the customer operates across sales, supply chain, executives and IT.
• Configure automations in SP Studio to reflect client needs and build trust.
• Lead FDEs on accounts; set priorities and drive end-to-end implementation.

Skills

Customer-facing work

Account ownership

Independent scoping decisions

People mentoring

Full-stack development

Procurement trust-building

Willingness to travel weekly

Relocation to SF

Low ego / curiosity

Tools

TypeScript

React

Svelte

Next.js

PostgreSQL

Job description

The Mission

America's industrial base runs on systems built in the 1980s.

Billions of dollars in critical components (F-35 parts, industrial assemblies, electronics, bolts, and hoses) still move through email threads, excel sheets, and disconnected ERPs.

We're replacing that with an AI-native platform that makes aerospace, electronics, industrial, and defense supply-chain operations nearly autonomous. Faster quoting. Faster procurement. Full visibility. Real operational intelligence for the companies our nation depends on.

Quick Facts

• YC W25 company. Top 5% growth in batch

• Raised $10M+ from investors including Paul Graham, SV Angel, Pear VC, and CRV

• Team of 20 co-live in our Warsaw & SF Hacker Houses

• 7 figure ARR transacting ~$50M a week through our system

The Job

• Go. Fly out and plant yourself inside the customer's operation. Weekdays are onsite (Wisconsin, New York, Miami, Los Angeles); weekends we regroup at the SF HQ to debrief and keep building.

• Understand. Map how the company actually operates, from sales and supply chain teams to executives and CEOs. Learn the breakpoints choking their growth and speed.

• Implement. Configure automations within SP Studio tooling so the platform accurately reflects the customer's needs. Build trust and confidence in SalesPatriot.

• Iterate. Take full ownership of the customer's outcome. Keep finding and killing their most pressing problems, leading org-wide scaling, until SalesPatriot is the operating system their business runs on.

• Lead. Run the FDEs on your accounts. Set their priorities, review their work, and get them to where they can run an implementation without you.

What We’re Looking For

• You've owned customer-facing technical work before and can point to results you delivered.

• You own the account. You set technical direction with the customer's executives and IT, decide what gets built first, and tell them no when they're asking for the wrong thing.

• You make scoping and trade-off calls on your own, without waiting for sign-off.

• You've mentored or managed engineers. Here you're accountable for the FDEs on your accounts hitting their outcomes.

• Strong full-stack engineer: TypeScript, at least one frontend framework (React, Svelte, Next, etc), and SQL, preferably Postgres. You still ship production code every week.

• You can earn trust with procurement specialists while navigating executive priorities and IT constraints.

• Ready to travel every week and relocate full-time to San Francisco. This is not a remote role.

• Absolute grinder. Interested in co-living (though not required).

• Low ego, curious, intellectually honest.

The Process

Call with engineer → 1hr technical test → Call with founder → fly out to SF HQ (on us) → offer.