Forward Deployed Engineer
- Salary
- $150K - $220K
- Level
- Mid
- Work type
- On-site · San Francisco
Not stated in the posting: visa.
Open. First seen 25 May 2026.
About the role
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 ownership of customer implementation under the Lead FDE's guidance, learning how to scale impact. Keep finding and killing their most pressing problems, leading org-wide scaling, until SalesPatriot is the operating system their business runs on.
Work closely with your Lead FDE to navigate customer strategy, escalations, and org-wide issues.
What We’re Looking For
- New grads welcome. What matters is that you've built and shipped things, so bring at least one full-stack project you can show us (GitHub repo, web app, or Loom demo).
- Strong in TypeScript and at least one frontend framework (React, Svelte, Next, etc). Comfortable with SQL, preferably Postgres.
- You want to learn the job from an experienced Lead FDE and grow into running your own customer implementations.
- Personable. You can sit with a procurement team, ask good questions, and come back with something that works. Customers look forward to your updates.
- Comfortable with ambiguity. The problem you solve on Tuesday may not be the one you flew in for on Monday.
- 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. Focused on outcomes, not on being right.
The Process
Call with engineer → 1hr technical test → Call with founder → fly out to SF HQ (on us) → offer.
The team: Core Team HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 6 open in Core Team. 3 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in September: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Excel (6 of 6), PostgreSQL (5 of 6), React (5 of 6), SQL (5 of 6), Svelte (5 of 6), TypeScript (5 of 6), GitHub (4 of 6)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Engineering Lead (Warsaw) posted Oct 10
- Software Engineer (Warsaw) posted Oct 10
- Lead Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 10
- Full Stack Engineer (San Francisco) posted Mar 3
- Senior Software Engineer (Warsaw) posted Sep 26
From the team and dates on SalesPatriot's own job board.
Salary context
184 other open postings titled Forward Deployed Engineer state a salary: median USD 150,000 to USD 217,500 a year.
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