Forward Deployed Engineer

rebuild.work•New York, NY

43d•Onsite

About The Position

Rebuild America in the 21st Century has seen an increase in frequency and intensity of natural disasters. Communities are dramatically changed in the matter of a few hours, and its homeowners can be displaced from their homes for years. Rebuild is an operating system for restoration contractors who specialize in mitigating damage to homes and rebuilding them after disasters hit. Disasters can take many forms. While catastrophic events likely come to mind immediately, smaller-scale damage (such as floods, fires, mold, etc.) can also be a nuisance and displace homeowners. AI is empowering us to meet this moment. Our initial product enables contractors to generate insurance-compliant estimates in just a few minutes, allowing them to properly get reimbursed for the work they do, get to more jobs, and repair more homes. Previously this process could take weeks and would result in very low margins for the restorer. This is just our first step towards improving the everyday efficiency of these contractors. Climate change estimates over $210 Billion dollars in damages to property, and Rebuild is tackling the massive opportunity to help restorers move more efficiently and accurately, starting with the estimate. We raised our Series A in Q3 2026 from Asymmetric Capital Partners with follow-ons from our earlier investors, Gutter Capital and 25 Madison.

Requirements

Own large, ambiguous problems end to end.
Proven track record shipping production code.
Comfortable sitting across the table from customers.
Experience at a startup.
Full-stack development and self-sufficient.
Can build the backend, the UI, and the data plumbing without waiting on anyone.
Comfortable with ambiguity.
Can scope your own work from a single customer conversation and start building.

Nice To Haves

Had a flood, fire, or burst pipe in your own home, and remember what the weeks afterward were actually like.
Mobile experience.
Done the unglamorous data work that makes messy real-world inputs usable.

Responsibilities

Apply AI to our customers' hardest problems from inside their accounts rather than from a ticket queue.
Fly out, sit with restoration contractors in their offices and on disaster sites, and watch how properties are actually restored, work is documented, and estimates actually get written.
Find the gaps and build the fix that applies our tools to solve their problems.
Own Deployment & implementation: Getting new accounts from signed to fully up and running.
Handle whatever it takes to make Rebuild fit the way each customer already works.
Prototyping and shipping account-specific solutions fast, then working with product and engineering to fold the winners into the platform.
Turning what you learn on site into specs and priorities the whole company acts on.
Be the shortest path between a contractor's problems and a shipped fix.