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Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer

EQL Tech

San Francisco, CAHybridFull-time$160–245K/yrPosted 2w agoVerified open today
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At a glance

Compensation
$160–245K/yr
Location
San Francisco, CAHybrid
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Visa required • Visa sponsorship

Job overview

EQL Tech is hiring a Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer. The Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer will embed with large industrial customers to bring an AI-powered wearable platform live on the factory floor. This role involves real software engineering and last-layer integrations into customer internal systems. The position requires working directly with customers on-site and converting ambiguous field requirements into shipped products.

Key focus areas include Build API/webhook/ETL integrations into customer enterprise systems, Build agentic/RAG features tailored to each deployment, and Turn ambiguous field requirements into shipped product.

Successful candidates bring 1-5 Years Hands-On FDE Experience and Willing To Travel Domestically ~25%. Important skills include API Integration, Webhook Integration, ETL Integration, ServiceNow, SAP, and Building Agentic Features. Preferred (not required): Salesforce, Industrial Deployment Background, Legacy Enterprise Deployment Background, and Converting Pilots To Production.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

API IntegrationWebhook IntegrationETL IntegrationServiceNowSAPBuilding Agentic FeaturesBuilding RAG FeaturesCustomer FacingIndustrial CustomersField CustomersSalesforceIndustrial Deployment BackgroundLegacy Enterprise Deployment BackgroundConverting Pilots to ProductionConverting POCs to Production

Qualifications

1-5 Years Hands-on FDE ExperienceWilling to Travel Domestically ~25%Visa Sponsorship Available

Full job description

Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer On-site · Engineering, Product & Tech · Full time San Francisco, California, United States

Description Our client is a stealth, seed-stage startup building an AI-powered wearable platform for industrial field technicians - running a real-time computer-vision and agentic AI system directly on smart-glasses hardware, live today with major data-center, energy, and industrial customers across multiple countries. Backed by a $5M seed round and founded by researchers from Harvard/NASA (computer vision, published at NeurIPS and ICCV) and MIT (machine learning, ex-quant researcher).

The bet: computer vision and agentic vision-language models (VLMs) grounded in real integrations with legacy enterprise systems (ServiceNow, SAP, Salesforce) - not another LLM wrapper. The industrial data this generates is also laying the groundwork for robotics automation down the line.

As Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer, you'll embed with large industrial customers (50,000+ employee organizations) and bring the product live on the factory floor - real software engineering plus the last-layer integrations into whatever internal systems the customer runs, not a non-coding "deployment strategist" role.

What you'll do

  • Build API/webhook/ETL integrations into customer enterprise systems (ERP, CMMS, ServiceNow, SAP, ticketing, knowledge bases)
  • Build agentic/RAG features tailored to each deployment, not just configure a vendor platform
  • Turn ambiguous field requirements into shipped product, working directly with customers on-site Location & culture Based on-site in the SF Bay Area between trips, with roughly 25% domestic travel to customer sites. The founding team lives and works together for the first several months in a shared house before moving to a standard office — expect an intense, in-person, roughly 9-9-6 pace. Hours flex for exceptional, senior talent; the priority is getting the right person, not saving on salary.

Requirements

Essential

  • 1–5 years hands-on FDE/solutions/implementation engineering shipping integrations and code

  • Integration breadth: API/webhook/ETL connecting enterprise systems (ERP, CMMS, ServiceNow, SAP, ticketing, KBs)

  • Has personally built agentic/RAG features — vendor-platform configuration alone isn't enough

  • Customer-facing, energized by industrial/field customers

  • Willing to travel domestically ~25% Particularly valuable

  • Industrial/legacy-enterprise deployment background

  • Track record converting pilots/POCs into production at large enterprises Benefits

Compensation & benefits

  • Base: $160K–$245K
  • Equity: 0.25%–0.75%
  • Visa sponsorship available (O-1, TN, E-3, H-1B1, H-1B transfer, F-1 OPT/STEM OPT)

How to apply: resume plus a short example of an integration you shipped into a customer's existing systems.

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