Raydar

AI-powered recruiting agency for tech roles

Forward Deployed Engineer

Data EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeNew York, NY, USA

About the Job

Requirements

The role requires 2 to 5 years of relevant experience.
Experience leading technical customer implementations is required, including connecting systems, understanding data structures, working with client stakeholders, and demonstrating results.
A track record of independently shipping production data pipelines or systems is required.
Relevant background may include forward deployed, customer, or solutions engineering; analytics engineering or data science in customer-facing delivery; or consulting with strong engineering skills.
Early-stage startup experience is required.
A degree in computer science, data science, statistics, or a similar quantitative field is required.
Deep SQL and data warehouse skills are required, including experience working through undocumented legacy schemas.
Regular use of AI coding tools and experience building or customizing automated workflows are required.
Applied data science literacy is required, including validation design and recognizing noise in results.
The ability to defend technical positions with evidence when customers push back is required.
Comfort with meticulous, repeated data-quality checking over long stretches is required.
Applicants must live in the New York City area or be ready to move there.

Responsibilities

Own the technical rollout of a software platform into customer environments, from initial data access through validated production workflows.
Work with customer data and engineering teams to translate business knowledge into reliable data models, with most work focused on hands-on data tasks.
Onboard new customers end to end, including scoping data access and exploring poorly documented data warehouses.
Map complex, inconsistent schemas to clear business concepts.
Interview customer stakeholders, resolve conflicting definitions, and encode them as validated SQL queries.
Deploy platform workflows and automated pipelines into customer environments and monitor their results.
Manage two to three customer engagements at once, collaborating directly with customer teams in shared chat channels.
Use internal tooling day to day and provide engineering feedback on validation, guardrails, and overall tool quality.

Forward Deployed Engineer

Raydar · New York, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-01

Salary: USD 180,000–250,000

Workplace: on_site

Description

About the company

Our client is a fast-growing software company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own the technical rollout of a software platform into customer environments, from initial data access through to validated production workflows. Work closely with customer data and engineering teams to turn business knowledge into reliable data models, spending most of the time on hands-on data work.

What you'll do

- Onboard new customers end to end, including scoping data access and exploring poorly documented data warehouses.

- Map complex, inconsistent schemas onto clear business concepts.

- Interview customer stakeholders, resolve conflicting definitions and encode them as validated SQL queries.

- Deploy platform workflows and automated pipelines into customer environments and monitor their results.

- Manage two to three customer engagements at once, collaborating directly with customer teams in shared chat channels.

- Use internal tooling day to day and give engineering feedback on validation, guardrails and overall tool quality.

Requirements

What we're looking for

- 2 to 5 years of relevant experience.

- Experience leading technical customer implementations, from getting systems connected and understanding data structures to working with client stakeholders and showing results.

- Track record of independently shipping production data pipelines or systems.

- Background as a forward deployed, customer or solutions engineer, an analytics engineer or data scientist in customer-facing delivery, or a consulting professional with strong engineering skills.

- Early-stage startup experience.

- Degree in computer science, data science, statistics or a similar quantitative field.

- Deep SQL and data warehouse skills, including working through undocumented legacy schemas.

- Regular use of AI coding tools and experience building or customizing automated workflows.

- Applied data science literacy, including validation design and recognizing noise in results.

- Ability to defend technical positions with evidence when customers push back.

- Comfort with meticulous, repeated checking of data quality over long stretches.

- Living in the New York City area or ready to move there.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: USD 180,000 to 250,000 per year

- Equity

Location and work model

- New York City, NY, United States

- On-site, 5 days per week in office

- Full-time

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About the Company

Raydar

AI-powered recruiting agency for tech roles

Raydar is an AI-powered talent acquisition firm that serves tech-focused organizations on a contingency basis, charging client companies only after a successful hire. It uses proprietary AI to identify a large pool of candidates and conducts a short 15-minute AI-driven interview (recorded and transcribed) before human recruiters review materials, provide interview prep, and assist with offers and negotiations. What sets it apart is the blend of automated sourcing and screening with hands-on human oversight and tailored client support. Its goal is to help organizations hire more efficiently by speeding up sourcing while maintaining thorough evaluation and negotiation assistance.

Company size: 11-50
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: Santa Monica, CA
Founded: 2021

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