- Job title
- Lead Forward Deployed Engineer
- Job location
- San Fransisco
- Job description
- The Mission\
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America's industrial base runs on systems built in the 1980s.\
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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.\
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We're replacing that with an AI-native platform that makes aerospace, electronics, industrial, and defense supply-chain operations nearly autonomous. Faster quoting. Faster procurement. Full visibility. Real operational intelligence for the companies our nation depends on. \
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Quick Facts\
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YC W25 company. Top 5% growth in batch\
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Raised $10M+ from investors including Paul Graham, SV Angel, Pear VC, and CRV\
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Team of 20 co-live in our Warsaw & SF Hacker Houses\
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7 figure ARR transacting \~$50M a week through our system\
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The Job\
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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.\
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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.\
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Implement. Configure automations within SP Studio tooling so the platform accurately reflects the customer's needs. Build trust and confidence in SalesPatriot.\
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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.\
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What We’re Looking For\
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Experience mentoring junior engineers or leading technical teams.\
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Ready to relocate full-time to San Francisco. This is not a remote role.\
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Absolute grinder. Interested in co-living (though not required).\
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Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change.\
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Track record of shipping fast.\
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Full-stack beyond code: comfortable jumping between frontend, backend, and organizational politics — earning trust with procurement specialists while navigating executive priorities and IT constraints.\
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Motivated by taking an unknown problem, sinking your teeth in, and coming up with a plan of attack.\
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Proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript, and at least one frontend library (React, Svelte, Next etc).\
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Be ready to show us at least one full-stack project you've shipped (GitHub repo / web app / Loom demo video).\
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Knowledge of SQL databases, preferably Postgres.\
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Personable: clients trust you, like you, and look forward to your updates. You handle the conversation and the code.\
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Low ego, curiosity, and intellectual honesty — focused on outcomes, not "being right."\
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The Process\
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Call with engineer → 1hr technical test → Call with founder → fly out to SF HQ (on us) → offer.
