Forward Deployed Engineer, 2027 Graduate

Endeavor AI

Chicago, Illinois, United StatesFull-timePosted Nov 4, 2026

About the role

Endeavor is real-world enterprise AI.

AI models are improving faster than most companies can put them to work. Endeavor closes that gap.

We exist to secure American industrial leadership. AI is the largest advantage available to the companies that make, move, and defend things in this country, and most of them can't reach it alone. We close that distance — so their customers pay less, their people do work worth doing, and the companies themselves come out stronger than the competition abroad.

To do that, we build custom AI systems for companies in mission-critical industries — manufacturing, distribution, supply chain, defense, life sciences. Not software they rent from a vendor that doesn't understand their business. Systems they own, built inside their own stack, in production in weeks.

Operating Principles

One team, one fight. Small companies fail for a hundred reasons. Being internally misaligned shouldn't be one of them. We think like owners of the whole business — the question is always how we win. We're fighting the world, not each other.

Strong convictions, loosely held. Show up with a point of view and hold that view loosely enough that better evidence can move it. The best ideas come from candor and debate.

Default to open. Our clients trust us with their hardest problems and we extend that same trust internally. Information here is open by default — data, context, the reasoning behind decisions — because you can't own an outcome you can only see half of.

The Role | Forward Deployed Engineer

Forward Deployed Engineers work side by side with our customers, rapidly understanding their toughest issues; architecting and building solutions that leverage business-critical data and the latest advancements in AI to solve them. As a FDE, your contributions will have a direct impact on our customers’ missions and the real world. You’ll work in small, agile teams and own the end-to-end execution and implementation of high-stakes projects.

What We Require

High agency, slope, and chaos ceiling with strong first principles thinking, outcome orientation, and resiliency.

Engineering background, preferred in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, and Data Science.

Proficiency with one or more programming languages, such as Python, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript, or similar.

Graduating in 2027.

Ability to travel.

Responsibilities

  • Work directly with customers to understand and solve their toughest business challenges.
  • Architect and build custom AI solutions using business-critical data and current AI technologies.
  • Own end-to-end execution and implementation of high-stakes projects in small, agile teams.

Qualifications

  • Graduating in 2027.
  • Engineering background, preferably in computer science, mathematics, software engineering, physics, or data science.
  • Proficiency in one or more programming languages, such as Python, C++, TypeScript, or JavaScript.
  • Demonstrate high agency, strong first-principles thinking, outcome orientation, and resilience.
  • Ability to travel.

Benefits

  • Equity

Skills mentioned

PythonC++TypeScriptSystem DesignBackend DevelopmentAPI IntegrationData EngineeringGenerative AILarge Language ModelsMachine Learning

About Endeavor AI

Endeavor AI builds proprietary, enterprise-grade AI systems that you own forever — custom AI for manufacturing, distribution, supply chain, life sciences, defense, and other mission-critical industries. Own your intelligence instead of renting it from third parties.

Technology51-200 employeesSan Francisco, CA