Harper (YC W25) · 2 days ago
Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco
Full-time
Onsite
Entry, Mid Level
$140K/yr - $200K/yr
2+ years expHarperinsure is focused on revolutionizing the insurance industry through AI-led solutions. The Forward Deployed Engineer will work closely with operations to identify inefficiencies and build rapid solutions that drive business impact.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)FinTechInsurance
Responsibilities
Find leverage. Sit with the sales team and figure out why conversion is dropping. Dig into customer service and find the tickets that eat all the time. Talk to ops and discover the workflow that nobody’s automated because nobody knew it could be. Last week’s impossible is this week’s opportunity
Build solutions fast. AI agents, automations, internal tools—whatever the problem demands. A voice agent that qualifies leads overnight. Document parsing that eliminates manual data entry. Custom workflows that turn five-hour processes into five-minute ones. You’ll prototype in days and ship in weeks
Stay on the frontier. New model drops? You’re testing it that day. New capability unlocked? You’re figuring out how to apply it. You’ll be the person who knows what’s newly possible—and has the context to know where it matters most
Prove impact. Did conversion go up? Did ticket time go down? Did the team stop doing that manual thing? You’ll set up the metrics, track the results, and show what worked
Communicate what you learn. You’ll present to the company. You’ll shape the roadmap based on what you’ve seen on the ground. You’ll be the bridge between operations and engineering
Qualification
Required
You're a technical generalist who views engineering as a tool for solving business problems—not the end goal itself
You get energy from seeing revenue move, not from elegant abstractions
You'll embed with our operations: sales, customer service, underwriting, carrier relations
You'll see where things break
You'll identify the 20% of problems that cause 80% of friction
You'll build the solution
You prototype something Monday, ship it Tuesday, measure results Wednesday
If it works, you push to production
If it doesn't, you try something else
You'll present to the team on what you've learned
You'll argue for priorities based on business impact
You'll care about revenue, not just code quality
You'll find leverage
You'll build solutions fast
You'll stay on the frontier
You'll prove impact
You'll communicate what you learn
You get energy from business impact
You're a technical generalist. Python, TypeScript, SQL—you can build a web app, set up an API, wire up an AI model
You write code with AI
You can present to non-technical people
You build fast
You think in business terms
You're 2-5 years into your career
Benefits
Equity: 0.05% - 0.25%
Company
Harper (YC W25)
Harper is a commercial E&S insurance brokerage.
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$0.5MKey Investors
Y Combinator
2025-03-12Pre Seed· $0.5M
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