Forward Deployed Engineer
New York, NYFull-time$175–290K/yrSeen 2mo agoStill listed 6 days ago
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Job overview
Auctor is building an AI layer for professional services, enabling forward‑deployed engineers to own and lead engineering projects for strategic customers. Based in New York, the role involves creating custom integrations, collaborating with technical and executive stakeholders, and delivering end‑to‑end solutions across backend, frontend, and infrastructure.
Skills & qualifications
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Full job description
Why Auctor Auctor is building the AI layer for professional services and software implementation. Think of us as the brain behind the best solution engineers, forward-deployed engineers, and onboarding teams— automating the documentation, the discovery, and the decision-making that powers $400B+ in services work. We’re going after one of the biggest software categories of the decade. The Role As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Auctor, you will own and lead engineering projects for our most strategic customers, building custom integrations and solutions tailored to their specific needs. You will work closely with our operations, GTM, and deployed services teams to build state-of-the-art systems that provide value to our customers. We're looking for people who want to do the most meaningful work of their career. People who are sharp, fast, and relentless. No fluff. Just speed, execution, and a shot to build something generational. This role is based in New York, NY, in person 5 days per week. What You'll Do
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Own end-to-end implementation of custom integrations for strategic customers
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Architect and build workflows and tooling tailored to enterprise needs
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Collaborate with customers directly, from technical teams to executives, to scope problems and ship solutions
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Develop performant agentic systems that operate over large corpora of unstructured data
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Work across the stack: backend services, frontend applications, and infrastructure
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Feed product insights back to the core team based on what you learn in the field
What You Have
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Strong programming fundamentals and CS knowledge
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Proficiency in Python and TypeScript (Next.js experience preferred)
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Comfort with ambiguity and context-switching across multiple customer engagements
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Excellent communication skills; you can translate technical complexity for non-technical stakeholders
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Demonstrated grit, previous startup or high-intensity experience valued
Compensation Range $175,000-$290,000 Benefits
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Early-stage equity
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Competitive, top-of-market salary
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Catered lunch and dinners
How this job compares
Set against the 2,443 open Forward Deployed Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 2, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$175–290K/yr
- New York median$152–250K/yr219 salary ranges
- US median$135–250K/yr2,075 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $233K, is 15% above the New York median midpoint ($202K) — in the top quarter of Forward Deployed Engineer salary ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 293 open Forward Deployed Engineer jobs in New York and 2,443 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- Forward Deployed Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 7 years (2,096 postings).
- Education
- 554 of the 2,443 open Forward Deployed Engineer jobs (23%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 2, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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