Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

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Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

Glean

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

Skills

RAI

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Contract type:

Permanent

Salary:

$160,000 – $270,000 / year

Location:

United States

Work mode:

Onsite

Published on:

17 September 2026

What they need

You’ll join as a founding member of Glean’s forward deployed team and operate with the autonomy and accountability of a founder
Your job is to discover and build Glean’s next generation of product surfaces, working in a pod with Forward Deployed PMs directly with the C-suite of the world’s most influential companies and with Glean’s own engineering and product teams
Glean is a fully horizontal AI platform - and that scope is what makes this role unique
You won’t be configuring existing products or optimizing within defined constraints
You’ll identify the biggest unsolved business problems at our most strategic customers, build entirely new products to solve them, and in doing so shape what Glean becomes
The best of what you build ships to every Glean customer in the world
You get founder-level ownership with Glean’s resources, relationships, and scale behind you
Discover and build Glean’s next product surfaces: Your primary job is 0-to-1 product creation. Nothing about what you’re building is predefined - you’ll work with your FDPM to identify where Glean’s platform can be extended to solve problems no product currently solves, then design and ship it. What you build becomes what Glean ships
Lead deep opportunity discovery: Before you write a line of code, you go deep on the business. What’s structurally broken? Where is the biggest concentration of unsolved value? What’s actually buildable, and what’s the fastest path to something real that can be tested and learned from? You’ll form strong hypotheses alongside your FDPM and pressure-test them directly with the people who have to live with the outcome
Be a technical partner to the C-suite: You’ll earn trust at the highest levels of your customer organizations - not just with technical teams, but with the executives who are accountable for outcomes. You can explain what you’re building, why it will work, and what the risks are to anyone in the room
Scale what works Once something works, you’ll make it repeatable - working closely with the core R&D team to ensure the product is scalable
Stay at the frontier with Glean’s R&D team: You’ll work closely with Glean’s core engineering and product teams, staying ahead of what’s possible on the platform and actively shaping how its capabilities evolve. What you encounter in the field directly informs what gets built next- Customer instinct: You build trust quickly at every level of an organization, communicate with clarity, and know how to tailor your depth to the room
Production AI experience: You’ve shipped AI-powered solutions in the real world - prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks, deployment at scale. Not just prototypes
Curiosity and scrappiness: You’re driven to understand problems deeply before solving them, and resourceful enough to find a path forward when none is obvious
Business acumen: You can walk into a customer, identify where the real problems are, and connect that diagnosis to a product hypothesis - without being handed a brief
Builder’s judgment: You know what’s actually buildable, how long it will take, and when to simplify scope to get something real into production faster. You spot problems early and solve them independently
Experience: 4+ years in technical roles with a track record of shipping production software. Former technical founders are strongly encouraged to apply
Willingness to travel: This role requires 25–50% travel
0-to-1 build track record: You’ve built production software from scratch in ambiguous environments. You can point to something that didn’t exist before you showed up and is now used by real people at scale
You think like a founder. When you walk into a customer, you’re curious about the business, digging into what’s broken, and figuring out what to build that doesn’t yet exist. You’re scrappy and resourceful, you move fast enough to learn, and you’re as comfortable in a strategic discussion with a CEO as you are deep in a codebase. You’ve shipped actual products that real people use, that drove real outcomes - and you want to do it at a higher level of ambition
Full-stack technical depth: Strong programming skills across the stack with a deep understanding of and experience with how enterprise systems actually work
Experience as a founder, at a top-tier technology company, or in a forward deployed engineering role
Deep familiarity with LLMs, retrieval systems, and evaluation frameworks
A technical degree in CS, engineering, math, or a related field
Experience driving technology adoption inside large enterprises

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