Forward Deployed Engineer

The Opportunity

Our core thesis: 85% of what engineers do today is theoretically automatable, yet less than 5% has actually been touched by AI. That gap is the largest of any profession. Our plan is to close it by building purpose-built tools for their staff, and compounding that proprietary intelligence across customers.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you're the tip of the spear. You'll embed inside the firms we work with-sitting beside structural, civil, and MEP engineers who've often never worked with a software company-find the workflows where technology creates the most leverage, and ship tools that work in weeks, not quarters. You own the outcome, not a ticket. And after winning at the edge, you'll work with the rest of the team to compound what you learned into universal product leverage for Eagle. You get a front-row seat to building a company from zero on a problem domain that's barely been touched by AI.

What You'll Do

• Embed on-site with engineers at the firms we work with-watch how they work, earn their trust, and find the highest-leverage problems to solve
• Own outcomes end-to-end: discovery, build, deployment, debugging in prod, and iterating live with the people using it
• Ship fast and bespoke when the deployment demands it-then feed every lesson back into a platform that compounds across firms
• Do whatever the deployment needs: wire up integrations to legacy Windows-native AEC software, write the scraper, or stand up an off-the-shelf tool to test an idea before you build the real thing
• Collaborate directly with the CTO on technical direction, engineering culture, and what we build next

What We Look for

• Has a deep curiosity for how things work-an organization, a workflow, a market
• Isn't afraid to expose their ignorance and is constantly asking why
• Has the poise and communication skills to earn trust with people who've never worked with a tech company before-on their turf, in their language
• Can sit with noisy, conflicting feedback from users and distill it into a clear opinion about what to build
• Low ego, high agency: no task is beneath you if it unblocks the deployment
• Is willing to get on a plane with us
• Has experience or interest in LLMs, agent frameworks, RAG, browser automation, or doc parsing

Technology

• Frontend: NextJS on Vercel, Tailwind CSS
• Backend: Kotlin for web services, Python for data
• Infra: Multitenant shared infra on AWS via Pulumi

Compensation

• Competitive cash compensation ($150K-$300K depending on experience)
• Founding equity, scaled to scope
• Full healthcare benefits
• In-person office in NYC