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Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

Crustdata· Engineering
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San Francisco, CA$150k - $200k + equityFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Founding forward deployed engineer role at Crustdata, an early-stage startup building APIs for AI agents to access real-time data. In-person in San Francisco, US. Part of founding team with competitive compensation and equity.

Responsibilities

  • Build rapid prototypes and POCs for prospects.
  • Create demo tooling and reusable templates to accelerate sales.
  • Run technical discovery and scope solutions with customers.
  • Implement turnkey integrations (APIs, pipelines, dashboards) and hand off to CS.
  • Connect Crustdata to customer systems and third-party tools.
  • Iterate prototypes into repeatable reference implementations.
  • Share feedback with Product & Engineering and write docs/playbooks.
  • Travel occasionally for workshops or on-site work.

Qualifications

  • 1+ years in customer-facing engineering (FDE, solutions, PS, pre-sales).
  • 1+ years experience shipping production code (Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript) + strong SQL and data stack experience (warehouses, ETL/ELT, data modeling).
  • Strong software skills and CS fundamentals
  • Clear communicator who can translate technical tradeoffs for business stakeholders.
  • Comfortable working in fast, cross-functional startup environments.

Skills

Required:Customer-facing engineeringProduction code (Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript)SQL and data stack (warehouses, ETL/ELT, data modeling)

Benefits

  • Competitive comp and meaningful equity in a profitable, fast-growing company
  • Impact and direct influence on deals and product direction
  • Opportunity to learn from founders, YC partners, and top-tier investors
  • Mission-driven work supporting AI agents interfacing with the internet
  • In-person role based in San Francisco, CA
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Crustdata

Real-time B2B data via simple APIs

Crustdata provides live company and people data via APIs and full dataset delivery. We make hard to get data easy to use at scale. We have developed technology that allows us to pipe in live data from over a dozen different data sources and deliver this data instantly to our customers. We serve use cases like: automatic pipeline building, pipeline prioritization, champion watching, company and people triggers for sales and marketing automation, investment deal sourcing Our goal is index all the important data on the web and deliver it to customers in an easy-to-use way.

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