# Founding Forward Deployed Engineer at Clera

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer at Clera in New York. Remote, full-time, paying $180k–$250k. Posted October 30, 2026.

- Company: Clera
- Location: New York
- Workplace: Remote
- Job type: Full-time
- Pay: $180k–$250k
- Experience: 3+ years
- Posted: 2026-10-30
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/78bc47c4-ffa8-481a-a202-2a98c7617866/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/founding-forward-deployed-engineer-clera-pg4kfh

## Requirements

- At least 3 years of experience in a technical, customer-facing role such as forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, or software engineering with substantial customer exposure.
- Strong SQL and dbt skills, with deep familiarity navigating data warehouses and undocumented schemas.
- A quantitative degree in statistics, mathematics, computer science, or a comparable field, plus a foundation in data science or machine learning.
- Applied statistics and modeling experience, including distributions, seasonality, validation design, and calibration.
- Experience creating custom agent setups beyond default implementations and building analytical cases tied to customer outcomes.
- Ability to resolve inconsistent business definitions through interviews and data validation, with careful attention to detail and comfort working through ambiguity.
- Founder experience or a non-traditional path into engineering is a plus.

## Description

### About the Role

Own customer deployments for an early-stage SaaS company, from understanding business goals and connecting to data through delivering a trusted system with measurable impact. The role brings together data engineering, applied AI, and customer success, while also building reusable tools and practices to improve future deployments.

### What You'll Do

- Partner with revenue and operations leaders to understand business objectives and identify valuable problems to solve.

- Lead customer onboarding, scope data access, and map undocumented warehouse schemas to business concepts.

- Interview customer data and business teams to reconcile conflicting definitions and validate the resulting ontology.

- Build customer-facing signals and workflows, including custom agent configurations, and troubleshoot their outputs.

- Agree on success measures, analyze results, and build a credible evidence-based case for customer impact.

- Develop reusable validation frameworks, evaluation harnesses, and mapping tools to accelerate deployments.

### What We're Looking For

- At least 3 years of experience in a technical, customer-facing role such as forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, or software engineering with substantial customer exposure.

- Strong SQL and dbt skills, with deep familiarity navigating data warehouses and undocumented schemas.

- A quantitative degree in statistics, mathematics, computer science, or a comparable field, plus a foundation in data science or machine learning.

- Applied statistics and modeling experience, including distributions, seasonality, validation design, and calibration.

- Experience creating custom agent setups beyond default implementations and building analytical cases tied to customer outcomes.

- Ability to resolve inconsistent business definitions through interviews and data validation, with careful attention to detail and comfort working through ambiguity.

- Founder experience or a non-traditional path into engineering is a plus.

### Compensation & Benefits

Base salary is $180,000 to $250,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

### Location

On-site in New York City, United States.