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Forward Deployed Engineer - Artificial Intelligence

Cotera is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer - Artificial Intelligence in New York, NY. Full brief — comp band, interview process, and hiring team — available to Employbl members.

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Job listing · Updated 22 AUG 2026

Forward Deployed Engineer - Artificial Intelligence

Cotera· New York, NY, USView company profile

Job title
Forward Deployed Engineer - Artificial Intelligence
Job location
New York, NY, US
Job listing URL
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cotera/jobs/FPIIOXR-forward-deployed-engineer-artificial-intelligence
Job description
Hiring: Forward Deployed Engineer - AI Cotera is looking to hire a Forward Deployed Engineer out of our New York Office to work with our enterprise team to deploy AI agents. You will be working in Cotera day in/day out to solve problems at the cutting edge of AI. You’ll get exposed to tons of GTM and Operational business problems inside companies. Ideally, these are your qualifications:  * You are early in your career: 1-3 years out of college (though more seasoned is also fine!!) and you’re looking to learn quickly. * You use AI: You’re familiar with tools like Claude Code, Perplexity, CLI/MCP tools, workflows (Zapier/n8n) * Curious and hungry: you might not know exactly what you want your career to look like 20 years from today, but you’re motivated to try different things to find out.  * You’re technically proficient - you don’t need to be an engineer, but you get like a 5x weighting if you’re using AI tools to code up things - you might not know how they work internally, but they’re working externally for you. * You’re detail oriented - people describe you as a “perfectionist” and you have a high standard for the work that you put out there. * You want to be a founder, and you want to learn the ins and outs of running a b2b business: building the house is the easy part now. You can do it from your phone, in a weekend. The hard part is getting people to pay attention, and that’s what you want reps at. * You like talking to people: you’ll be speaking to a lot of customers, so you should be comfortable spending at least 3 hours a day on the phone. Here’s what you’ll be doing: * Working in Cotera daily. This is both to help customers, but also to help our product team * Talking to customers and managing relationships: our customers expect a lot from us, and building and shipping agents quickly and communicating/training is useful * Running trainings/webinars * Writing AI thought pieces for our marketing site. * Salary - 120k-145k + Equity
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Where this role is based

New York, NY

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Cotera headquarters

New York City, NY

Company size

5–20 employees

Founded

2022

Total raised

$500,000

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Funding rounds

Investors

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