Dataland · 1 month ago
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
Dataland is the applied AI lab for complex operations and customer support, rapidly growing and profitable. The Founding Forward Deployed Engineer will lead customer engagements, deploying advanced AI solutions to address complex operational challenges across various industries.
Computer Software
Responsibilities
Lead customer engagements end-to-end. You’ll identify the most valuable problems to solve for our customer, embed with their team to deeply understand it, build and deploy applied AI to solve their challenges and achieve their desired outcomes
Be the trusted face of Dataland for our customers: You’ll own the relationship with our customers, ranging from executive stakeholders down to frontline users
Always be shipping: Constantly scope, build, and ship new workstreams while expanding the impact of existing agentic AI products
Simply put, write code that makes our customers win and make money
Qualification
Required
Drive and work ethic. Being an FDE is hard. You will be effectively running your own book of business inside of ours, and it takes real grit to constantly find ways to make customers successful, and evolve our existing engagements towards greater and greater impact
Engineering fundamentals. Most of your time will be spent building software that you've scoped out
Deep customer empathy. Your performance is measured by how your customers perform. We only win when our customers win
Strong communication. FDEs spend a lot of time talking directly with customers and internal teams. You need to be a great listener and articulate your thinking clearly
AI fluency: Before you can revolutionize someone else's workflow, you need to revolutionize yours. You should know how to use tools like Claude Code, Cursor, etc. to make yourself radically efficient