Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

Walter Bacon, Inc.
New York, New York, United StatesFull-timePosted Aug 26, 2026

About the role

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer (Early Stage Enterprise AI Startup)

ABOUT US

Well Funded by Top Tier VC Firms

Early Stage Enterprise AI Startup, DevTool, AI Agent Reliability, Quality, Performance

Runs Simulations With Your AI Agents Before Turning Them Loose in Your Enterprise Environments

HQ in NY

THE ROLE:

Founding / First Solutions Engineer

PRE-Sales

Work Closely With Our Head of Sales to Win New Business.

Implement and Manage PoCs.

Get Up To Speed on Customers' Codebases.

Build the Customer Simulation and Test the AI Agent

Document and Show the Value of Our Platform on the Customer's Systems

POST-Sales:

Help Customers Get Up and Running With Our Platform

Document Best Practices For The FDE Function

Act as a TAM (Technical Account Manager)

IDEAL CANDIDATE PROFILE:

3+ Years of Building Enterprise Software (Strong in Python)

LLM Experience: Building LLMs, Evaluating LLMs

Polyglot, Language Agnostic

Happy to Work Primarily in Python

Some Customer Facing Experience

Computer Science Degree From a Top University

Excited to Make a Huge Impact at an Early Startup

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with Head of Sales to win new business
  • Implement and manage PoCs
  • Get up to speed on customers' codebases
  • Build customer simulation and test the AI agent
  • Document and show the value of our platform on customer's systems
  • Help customers get up and running with our platform
  • Document best practices for the FDE function
  • Act as a Technical Account Manager

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of building enterprise software
  • Strong in Python
  • LLM experience: building and evaluating LLMs
  • Polyglot, language agnostic
  • Some customer facing experience
  • Computer Science degree from a top university

Skills mentioned

PythonGenerative AILarge Language ModelsAI AgentsModel EvaluationSoftware TestingBackend DevelopmentAPI IntegrationSystem DesignDebugging

About Walter Bacon, Inc.

Helping CEOs and Founders of ( AI, Data, Dev, Sec, and Ops ) Tools Startups Achieve Their Growth Goals by Recruiting Top-Performing Engineering and GTM Talent with Proven Domain Expertise.

Staffing and Recruiting2-10 employeesOakland, CA