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Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

Glean· Forward Deployment
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Remote$160k - $270kfull-timePosted 8mo ago

About the role

Founding member of Glean's forward deployed team responsible for discovering and building new product surfaces for strategic customers, collaborating with C-suite, FDPMs, and Glean’s engineering and product teams to shape and ship 0-to-1 solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Discover and build Glean's next product surfaces: 0-to-1 product creation, identifying gaps and shipping novel extensions to the platform.
  • Lead deep opportunity discovery: analyze business structure, determine solvable value, form hypotheses, and test with customers.
  • Be a technical partner to the C-suite: articulate product plans, rationale, and risks to executives.
  • Scale what works: work with core R&D to ensure repeatability and scalability of successful solutions.
  • Stay at the frontier with Glean's R&D: collaborate with core engineering and product teams to influence platform capabilities.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years in technical roles with a track record of shipping production software
  • Experience as a founder or with forward deployed engineering is a plus
  • Willingness to travel 25-50%
  • 0-to-1 build track record: production software built from scratch in ambiguous environments
  • Production AI experience: shipped AI-powered solutions, prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks, and deployment at scale
  • Full-stack technical depth across the stack with enterprise systems understanding
  • Business acumen and customer-facing communication, able to diagnose problems and link to product hypotheses
  • Curiosity, scrappiness, and builder's judgment with ability to work independently and drive outcomes

Skills

Required:0-to-1 product developmentProduction AI experienceFull-stack software developmentCustomer-facing influence

Benefits

  • Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage
  • generous time-off policy
  • 401k plan
  • home office improvement stipend
  • annual education and wellness stipends
  • regular company events and daily healthy lunches
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Glean

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