Forward Deployed Engineer

Special • New York City, NY

4d • Onsite

About The Position

When Special acquires a business, you're the one who goes in, learns how it runs, and turns SpecialOS into the system that runs it. This is not a single-vertical role — you'll deploy across every company we own and every vertical we enter. One week you're in the field watching operators do a job by hand. The next you're shipping the software that does it for them. You'll own integrations into the messy, legacy systems these businesses depend on — billing, payroll, scheduling, ERPs, EHRs — and you'll write the code that connects them to SpecialOS and makes the work more efficient.

Requirements

• Have shipped meaningful production software
• Care deeply about craft, reliability, and the experience of the people using what you build
• Are comfortable working in fast-moving, ambiguous environments where the org and the product are both being built in real time
• Enjoy spending time in the field, on-site with operators, away from a desk
• Are interested in real-world industries — healthcare, services, the physical economy — not just consumer software
• Expertise with modern engineering and AI-native tools
• Communicate clearly and collaborate well across disciplines, including with non-technical operators

Nice To Haves

• Full-stack ability — comfortable across backend, data, and front-end
• Strong track record building integrations and working with messy, real-world data and legacy systems
• Experience translating requirements from non-technical users into shipped software
• Experience working closely with founders and operators in early-stage or deployed environments
• Comfort owning a problem from ambiguous first contact through production

Responsibilities

• Deploy and configure SpecialOS at newly acquired companies, from first day in the field to production
• Deeply understand the owners who use our OS every day, including time on-site at our companies
• Build integrations, pipelines, and automations that connect SpecialOS to the systems our businesses already run on
• Turn manual, repetitive operational processes into reliable software
• Rapidly prototype and ship using both traditional and AI-assisted engineering tools
• Partner closely with founders, operators, and the core engineering team to ship polished, production-quality systems
• Carry lessons from each deployment back into the core product so the next one is faster

Benefits

• Meaningful equity
• Comprehensive medical coverage
• Vision coverage
• Dental coverage
• Access to a 401(k)
• Short-term disability insurance
• Long-term disability insurance
• Life insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed