Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

People In AI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

People In AI in New York City is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to own the technical “last mile” of deployments for our AI platform in city-scale projects. This hands-on role blends production coding, technical discovery, and customer-facing delivery to turn product capability into real-world impact.

You will lead onboarding for cities and developers, build data pipelines for geospatial and regulatory datasets, and write production Python to support integrations and deployments while

Qualifications

• Software engineering experience with ownership of customer-facing or product-facing work.
• Strong Python skills and production-ready code experience.
• Hands-on data pipelines, integrations, onboarding workflows, or data-heavy customer solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical onboarding for cities, developers, and other strategic customers.
• Build and adapt data pipelines for geospatial, parcel, zoning, CAD, regulatory datasets.
• Write production-ready Python to support data manipulation, integrations, and deployments.
• Work with customers to understand data, definitions, constraints, and success criteria.
• Translate requirements into product feedback, roadmap input, and technical plans.
• Partner with engineering, product, customer success, and domain experts to deliver value quickly.
• Own the technical side of multiple customer engagements as deployment scales.

Skills

Software engineering

Python

Data pipelines

Technical communication

Full-stack

Customer impact

AI for real-world problems

Tools

APIs

Cloud data warehouses

Job description

Compensation: $180,000 – $220,000 base + equity

Location: New York City

The Company

A high-growth AI-native company is building an intelligence platform for the built world, helping cities, developers, architects, investors, and underwriters make faster, better decisions across planning, permitting, and development.

The Opportunity

This is a first-in-function Forward Deployed Engineering role, designed for an engineer who wants to sit at the intersection of product, customers, data, and software.

You will be the technical lead on customer deployments, helping a cutting-edge AI platform move from product capability to real-world adoption and measurable impact.

The Role

You will own the technical “last mile” of deployment, adapting the platform to customer-specific geographies, datasets, regulations, and workflows.

This is a hands‑on engineering role with meaningful customer exposure: part production coding, part technical discovery, part data onboarding, and part customer‑facing solution delivery.

What You’ll Do

• Lead technical onboarding for cities, developers, and other strategic customers.
• Build and adapt data pipelines for complex geospatial, parcel, zoning, CAD, regulatory, and jurisdiction‑specific datasets.
• Write production‑ready Python to support data manipulation, platform integrations, and customer‑specific deployment needs.
• Work directly with customers to understand their data, definitions, constraints, and success criteria.
• Translate customer requirements and edge cases into product feedback, roadmap input, and technical implementation plans.
• Partner with engineering, product, customer success, account management, and domain experts to deliver customer value quickly.
• Own the technical side of multiple customer engagements as the company scales deployment.

What You’ll Bring

• Software engineering experience, ideally with meaningful customer‑facing or product‑facing ownership.
• Strong Python skills and experience writing production or near‑production code.
• Hands‑on experience building data pipelines, integrations, onboarding workflows, or data‑heavy customer solutions.
• Strong technical communication skills, with the ability to explain complex engineering work clearly to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Experience in full‑stack engineering, data engineering, data science, or a closely related technical discipline.
• High ownership, strong product judgment, and comfort operating in an early‑stage environment with evolving requirements.
• Genuine interest in customer impact, housing, cities, sustainability, infrastructure, or applying AI to real‑world problems.

What This Role Requires

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and hands‑on Python experience.
• Experience working with data pipelines or technical onboarding workflows.
• Ability to lead high‑stakes customer‑facing technical conversations.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally when customer needs require it.
• Motivation to work in an impact‑oriented, early‑stage AI company.
• Python
• SQL and cloud data warehouses
• APIs and data integrations
• Parcel, zoning, CAD, regulatory, and jurisdiction‑specific datasets
• Full‑stack application development is a plus

Why Join

• Be the first Forward Deployed Engineer and help define a critical function from the ground up.
• Work on a technically rich AI platform with geospatial, regulatory, data, and customer deployment challenges.
• Join a collaborative, mission‑driven team building technology aimed at improving how housing, cities, and development decisions get made.