Forward Deployed Engineer

You turn messy businesses into deployed systems. Compound works with companies where the important work is scattered across spreadsheets, SaaS tools, tribal knowledge, inboxes, PDFs, databases, and people's heads. Your job is to go into that environment, understand how the business actually runs, and help turn it into software. You own the path from customer ambiguity to deployed product. You will work directly with customers to understand workflows, identify high-value use cases, design systems, and ship production applications. You will translate field knowledge back into the platform so Compound gets better with every deployment. You are responsible for making sure the thing works in the real world: data quality, user adoption, edge cases, integrations, evaluation, rollout, and the metric that tells us whether the system actually created value. Strong signals: Production engineering experience across frontend, backend, or data systems. React, Typescript, and Python. Experience working directly with customers or internal business stakeholders. Ability to understand operational workflows quickly. Comfort with LLM applications, agents, RAG, evals, or automation systems. Strong written and verbal communication. Bias toward shipping and field learning. Calm under ambiguity. Not a fit if: You only want to build from a spec. You dislike customer contact. You need the problem to be perfectly defined before starting. You think deployment is someone else's job.