Forward Deployed Engineer

Clarasight • New York, NY

3d

About The Position

We are seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to sit within Engineering but spend most of their time in pre-sales and strategic customer engagements, working closely with Sales and Customer Success. This is a build-and-own role: you will lead technical discovery with prospects and customers, architect and prototype integrations and AI workflows during live sales cycles, reconcile messy low-quality enterprise datasets, and contribute directly to Clarasight's full-stack production codebase. Your job is to turn customer-specific solutions into scalable product capabilities — the best things you build shouldn't stay custom.

Requirements

• 5–8+ years in software engineering, data engineering, or technical consulting.
• A track record of delivering in ambiguous, high-ownership environments.
• Contribute to production codebases without hesitation.
• Spent meaningful time wrangling messy enterprise data.
• Communicate clearly across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Move fast and prioritize outcomes over credit.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with fintech or enterprise financial systems.
• Demonstrated outcomes applying AI/ML to real operational data.
• Prior experience in a forward-deployed, solutions, or founding-engineer capacity at a startup.
• Exposure to corporate travel, expense, or procurement data.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical relationship from first discovery call through contract close.
• Collaborate with the data science team to translate ambiguous, high-pressure business problems into working prototypes and clear technical narratives that build trust and accelerate deals.
• Lead technical discovery with prospects and customers.
• Design and build pipelines across fragmented travel, financial, and expense systems.
• Get hands-on with messy, low-quality enterprise data: reconciling, validating, and shaping it into something reliable.
• Build frameworks that last, not workarounds that don't.
• Apply AI where it genuinely creates advantage: enrichment, anomaly detection, forecasting, automation.
• Have strong opinions about where it helps and where it's noise.
• Turn experiments into repeatable, scalable workflows.
• Feed structured learnings directly into Product.
• Turn the best customer-specific solutions into part of the platform.
• Contribute directly to Clarasight's full-stack production codebase.

Benefits

• Generous equity in an early-stage company with serious commercial traction.
• Full medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• $500 annual sustainability benefit.
• Direct exposure to a seasoned leadership team.
• A role that grows in scope, responsibility, and compensation as we do.

What This Job Offers

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