About this role

One of our start-up clients is building AGI applied to legal work. Our client's AI agents mimic lawyers’ reasoning, research, and drafting, and our workflows already outperform attorneys in third-party evaluations. We target mid-market law firms, automating legal work and enabling firms to offer our tools directly to clients. Join at an early stage as we scale agents to process thousands of documents simultaneously and deliver outputs that exceed human-level accuracy—in real, high-stakes environments.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at our client's start-up, you’ll embed with customers to turn ambiguous workflows into deployed, reliable solutions. You’ll scope, prototype, integrate, and operate production systems—owning the last mile from SSO and data ingestion to UX fit and pilot success. You’ll work directly with founders, engineers, and legal experts to ship measurable value fast and upstream your wins into the core product.

What will you be doing?

Own customer deployments end-to-end: run discovery, define success metrics, and deliver pilots that convert to expansion.
Build and integrate for real environments: implement adapters, webhooks, and APIs (e.g., iManage/NetDocs, SharePoint, Outlook, Word add-ins); wire up SSO/SAML/OIDC and tenant isolation.
Create reusable product: transform bespoke integrations into configurable modules, SDKs, templates, and internal playbooks.
Accelerate time-to-value: remove bottlenecks (data migrations, redlines, policy constraints) so pilots deliver results in weeks, not months.

Key Requirements

2+ years building production software (full-stack or platform); you’re comfortable reading unfamiliar APIs and shipping in messy real-world stacks.
Proficiency with TypeScript/JavaScript (React/Next.js for light UI surfaces) and at least one backend language (e.g., Python ) for integrations and automations..
Bias to ship: you favor the smallest change that proves value, instrument it, and iterate quickly.
Comfortable in an early-stage environment with ownership, ambiguity, and rapid iteration. Light travel to customer sites as needed.

Nice to Have

Prior FDE, solutions engineering, or customer-facing technical role — but only if you were actually building, not just demoing
Experience at companies like Ramp, Cursor, Clay, or Palantir where FDE culture is embedded
Exposure to legal tech or enterprise SaaS workflows

1 - 5 years of experience in primarily full-stack, customer-facing software engineering with forward deployed engineering in complement

Salary

$170K - $350K ($170K-$250K base salary with 0.5-1% competitive equity )

Equity

0.5% to 1%

Visa sponsorship available

Open to transfers

On-site work policy

Office in Manhattan, NYC

Full-time position