Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
About the role
Forward Deployed Engineers to help build the AI execution layer for the real economy. The role centers on deploying AI-driven workflows for private equity-backed roll-ups, integrating systems, modeling businesses, and delivering customer-facing deployments.
Responsibilities
- Own deployments end-to-end: Understand the business problem, map the underlying processes and systems, ingest and transform data, build the solution, deploy it, and iterate with the customer
- Build AI systems that do real work: Turn manual operational processes into software and agentic workflows that can execute autonomously
- Shape the core Elevate platform: Identify patterns across deployments and work directly with engineering to turn bespoke solutions into reusable infrastructure and product
- Model complex businesses in data: Unify fragmented systems, define canonical business logic, and create the context layer that allows AI to reason and act reliably
- Work directly with customers: Partner with CFOs, operators, integration leaders, and other executives at sophisticated acquisition-driven businesses
- Help drive expansion and GTM: Identify where Elevate can solve additional problems and participate in the conversations that shape new products and customer relationships
Qualifications
- Typical candidates will have 2+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, software engineering, technical consulting, or AI, with a desire to work much closer to customers and business problems.
Skills
About Elevate
Automated AI data integrations for roll-ups
Elevate is bringing AI to private equity-backed roll-ups. For example, one of our customers is Guardian Restoration Partners, which is backed by Alpine Investors, the leading roll-up focused private equity firm. In three months, we integrated 10 acquisitions and enabled them to pilot AI agents built on top of our data warehouse. We know this problem personally. Before Elevate, Scott was a Vice President at a $15B private equity firm where he was leading a roll-up. Steve and Jeff are both software engineers with backgrounds across finance, big tech, and start-ups. The founding team has been friends for over a decade from their Duke undergraduate days.
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