Lead Forward Deployed Engineer

## The Mission

The West's industrial base runs on systems built in the 1980s.

Billions of dollars in critical components (F-35 parts, industrial assemblies, electronics, bolts, and hoses) still move through email threads, excel sheets, and disconnected ERPs.

We're replacing that with supply-chain superintelligence that makes aerospace, electronics, industrial, and defense operations nearly autonomous. Faster quoting. Faster procurement. End-to-end supply chain visibility.

## Quick Facts

* YC W25 company. Top 5% growth in batch
* Raised $10M+ from investors including Paul Graham, SV Angel, Pear VC, and CRV
* Team of 20 co-live in our Warsaw & SF Hacker Houses
* 7 figure ARR transacting \~$50M a week through our system

## The Job

* **Go.** Fly out and plant yourself inside the customer's operation. Weekdays are onsite (Wisconsin, New York, Miami, Los Angeles); weekends we regroup at the SF HQ to debrief and keep building.
* **Understand.** Map how the company actually operates, from sales and supply chain teams to executives and CEOs. Learn the breakpoints choking their growth and speed.
* **Implement.** Configure automations within SP Studio tooling so the platform accurately reflects the customer's needs. Build trust and confidence in SalesPatriot.
* **Iterate.** Take full ownership of the customer's outcome. Keep finding and killing their most pressing problems, leading org-wide scaling, until SalesPatriot is the operating system their business runs on.
* **Lead.** Run the FDEs on your accounts. Set their priorities, review their work, and get them to where they can run an implementation without you.

## What We’re Looking For

* You've owned customer-facing technical work before and can point to results you delivered.
* You own the account. You set technical direction with the customer's executives and IT, decide what gets built first, and tell them no when they're asking for the wrong thing.
* You make scoping and trade-off calls on your own, without waiting for sign-off.
* You've mentored or managed engineers. Here you're accountable for the FDEs on your accounts hitting their outcomes.
* Strong full-stack engineer: TypeScript, at least one frontend framework (React, Svelte, Next, etc), and SQL, preferably Postgres. You still ship production code every week.
* You can earn trust with procurement specialists while navigating executive priorities and IT constraints.
* Ready to travel every week and relocate full-time to San Francisco. This is not a remote role.
* Absolute grinder. Interested in co-living (though not required).
* Low ego, curious, intellectually honest.

## The Process

Call with engineer → 1hr technical test → Call with founder → fly out to SF HQ (on us) → offer.