Forward Deployed Engineer
About The Position
Minerva builds AI for marketing leaders, working with marketers to automate and accelerate workflows through AI agents. The agents support analysis, campaign planning, activation, measurement, and reporting. Minerva describes its platform as a full stack spanning identity, enrichment, data integration, and agents that take action and report on analysis. The Forward Deployed Engineer builds custom solutions for complex enterprise accounts that need capabilities beyond the standard product. Embedded with customers, this role develops custom onboarding, data pipelines, and models, and then turns successful one-off solutions into patterns the data platform team can productize. The engineer works closely with the CTO and data science team, as well as each account's account executive, forward deployed marketer, and solutions engineer. This is a production-focused role rather than a research role: everything built runs for a paying customer. The position is based in person at Minerva's Williamsburg, Brooklyn office, and involves customer travel. The role requires U.S. work authorization; visa sponsorship is considered case by case.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of experience as a data scientist or data engineer shipping production work in a data-heavy setting.
- Strong Python and SQL skills.
- Experience with dbt, an orchestrator such as Dagster or Airflow, and a cloud warehouse such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks.
- Experience building predictive models such as propensity, LTV, lookalike, or lead-scoring models, and the ability to assess whether customer data can support a model.
- Experience working with messy, multi-source data, including identity resolution, entity matching, consumer data, or behavioral data.
- Experience working directly with customers or non-technical stakeholders.
- Located in New York City or willing to relocate, and comfortable traveling to customers.
- Authorized to work in the United States; visa sponsorship is considered case by case.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with consumer data, identity graphs, adtech, or martech.
- Experience with experiment design, including holdouts and lift measurement.
- Forward deployed, solutions, or consulting experience at a data company.
- Experience in sports, financial services, or travel.
Responsibilities
- Build custom data ingestion and pipelines for accounts whose data does not fit standard onboarding, and assess whether the data is suitable for downstream work.
- Build custom propensity, lookalike, and scoring models using a customer's first-party data and Minerva's consumer graph when standard models are insufficient.
- Run scoring in production for assigned accounts and own its accuracy.
- Scope and build new capabilities needed for customer expansions in collaboration with the forward deployed marketer.
- Turn custom pipelines and models into reusable patterns that the data platform team can productize.
- Serve as the technical voice for customers' data teams, explaining how the systems work.
- Take complex accounts from raw data to production scoring and document data-readiness assessments.
- Improve time-to-data-ready and data quality on assigned accounts.
Benefits
- Meaningful equity; equity is included with every full-time role.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Monthly fitness stipend.
- Annual company offsite.
- Variable bonus targeted at 10% of base salary.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
