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Credal

Secure enterprise AI agent platform

Customer Deployment Engineer

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/4/2026
$120k - $160k/yr
Mid
Brooklyn, NY, USA
In Person

About the job

Requirements
  • Communicate clearly and tailor messages to CISOs, platform engineers, and procurement teams.
  • Take ownership of work from an ambiguous start through completion.
  • Understand customer retention, expansion, and advocacy, and orient work around commercial outcomes.
  • Thrive in fast-paced environments, take action, work comfortably with ambiguity, and continue learning.
Responsibilities
  • Build proofs of concept to unblock deals and accelerate time to value.
  • Own design partnerships with end users to shape the product roadmap.
  • Develop a deep understanding of each customer's use case and business objectives, and advocate for customers internally.
  • Define and improve the playbooks, processes, and tooling needed to scale effective approaches.
  • Own the onboarding experience, maintain high-quality documentation, and understand users' greatest sources of friction.
  • Build trusted relationships with customers, participate in their Slack channels, and meet them at their desks.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with agents, MCP, or other large language model tooling.
  • Technical ability to read logs, reproduce issues, and build basic solutions.
  • Background in enterprise security, compliance, or access control.
  • Prior solutions engineering, forward-deployed engineering, or customer success experience at an infrastructure or developer tools company.

About the company

Credal.ai provides an enterprise AI platform focused on security and governance for building and deploying AI agents that collaborate on workflows with internal data. It connects to data sources like G Suite, Salesforce, and Slack as a secure data layer, letting AI models access information only within the original user permissions and adding features like PII redaction and granular audit logs. The platform supports Retrieval-Augmented Generation and offers a backward-compatible API for OpenAI and Anthropic models, with options for cloud or on-premise deployment and SOC 2 Type 2 compliance. Its goal is to enable large-scale use of generative AI in enterprises without risking exposure of sensitive information by offering a trusted, auditable, and compliant data layer.

Company Size

N/A

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$4.9M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2022

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What believers are saying

  • Credal’s September 2026 site touts Checkr’s 73% Salesforce accuracy lift using MCP.
  • Jobs posted September 23, 2026 show hiring for sales, deployment, and design.
  • Customers now include HHS, Comcast NBCUniversal, MongoDB, Wise, Lattice, and incident.io.

What critics are saying

  • OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Google bundle secure enterprise AI controls into core clouds.
  • Credal’s MCP pivot signals crowded-market commoditization pressure from adjacent agent platforms.
  • If large customers standardize on native copilots, Credal’s control-plane wedge evaporates.

What makes Credal unique

  • Former Palantir founders built Credal around permissions-first enterprise AI, not generic chat.
  • Credal’s 1,000-plus connectors inherit source permissions across Slack, Salesforce, Jira, and Confluence.
  • The platform now sells governed MCP servers, letting agents share reusable workflows.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

High quality health coverage, including great mental health benefits, for you and your immediate family. This includes comprehensive and HSA options.

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Flexible Work Hours

Parental Leave

A generous housing subsidy for those who choose to live in Brooklyn.

Free team lunch & dinner.

Situational hybrid work flexibility.

Stock Options

Company Equity

401(k) Retirement Plan

401(k) Company Match

Wellness Program

Mental Health Support

Gym Membership

Remote Work Options

Paid Vacation

Phone/Internet Stipend

Home Office Stipend

Conference Attendance Budget

Professional Development Budget

Family Planning Benefits

Fertility Treatment Support

Adoption Assistance

Childcare Support

Elder Care Support

Meal Benefits

Commuter Benefits

Legal Services

Employee Discounts

Employee Referral Bonus

Relocation Assistance

Tuition Reimbursement

Training Programs

Professional Certification Support

Mentorship Program

HR Programs

Family Planning Benefits

401(k) Retirement Plan

Stock Options

Company Equity

Hybrid Work Options

Remote Work Options

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