Forward Deployed Engineer (New York)

Forward Deployed Engineer (New York) Company: Confidential — new kind of software holding company Location: New York, NY (in office 3+ days per week, 4 preferred; 2-3 days per week travel to East Coast portfolio companies) Compensation: $185,000 - $240,000 + competitive equity Employment Type: Full-time Visa Sponsorship: Visa sponsorship available About the Company The client is a new kind of software holding company that buys, builds, grows and holds great vertical market software businesses.

The team are technology entrepreneurs, not a financial firm. Founded in 2024, Beacon has raised $250M and has about 85 people. The Role Beacon is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers (3-6 years) to embed with its portfolio companies, ship agentic software into live operations and own the outcomes end to end. This is a Palantir-style role: you build running systems that compound across an entire portfolio.

What You Will Do Embed with portfolio companies, earn operator trust and find the highest-leverage workflows for agentic software. Build integrations, prompts, evals and UI to land the first agentic loop at each company. Operate and tune deployed systems after launch and hand off cleanly once stable. Act as the technical face of Beacon to portfolio company leaders. Codify learnings into reusable playbooks for future deployments.

What You Bring 3-6 years of full-stack, customer-facing software engineering or forward deployed engineering TypeScript or Python backend, React frontend and SQL, with solo end-to-end delivery Shipped production LLM or agentic software with evals and outcome tracking Operator instincts and the ability to earn non-technical stakeholder trust Nice to Have Snowflake, Databricks or Apache Iceberg Vertical software experience Benefits Health, vision and dental insurance.

Tech Stack TypeScript, Python, React, SQL, LLMs, agentic workflows, evals, Snowflake, Databricks, Apache Iceberg Before you apply: get a free recruiter-readiness score for your resume at CareerStanding — about a minute, no signup, and your resume stays in your browser.