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Beacon Software

Forward Deployed Engineer

New York, NYfulltimemidAdded 1 month ago

About this role

Beacon Software seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with portfolio companies and build agentic software systems that directly improve operations. You'll identify high-leverage workflows, ship production systems, and compress learnings into reusable playbooks for the broader portfolio.

What you'll do

  • Embed with portfolio companies to understand operating models and identify 2-3 high-impact workflows for automation
  • Build and ship end-to-end agentic software solutions including integrations, prompts, evals, and UI surfaces
  • Monitor deployed systems post-launch, tune performance, and hand off to portfolio operations teams
  • Codify successful patterns into playbooks that accelerate deployments across similar companies
  • Serve as the technical relationship owner with portfolio company GMs and operators
  • Work full-stack across TypeScript, Python, React, and SQL to deliver complete solutions

What they're looking for

  • Full-stack software development (TypeScript, Python, React, SQL)
  • LLM-native engineering and agentic workflow design
  • Integration and API development
  • Rapid onboarding to unfamiliar codebases
  • Evaluation and fine-tuning of foundation models
  • Business acumen and P&L literacy
  • High-autonomy problem-solving
  • Technical communication and documentation

Benefits

  • Work on AI-driven systems with real business impact across a portfolio of companies
  • Significant travel and on-site placement opportunities with portfolio companies
  • Access to Beacon's $550M+ funded infrastructure and engineering platforms
  • Opportunity to shape reusable playbooks and best practices at scale
  • Close collaboration with operators, GMs, and executive leadership
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Beacon Software

Beacon Software builds agentic software systems and internal platforms that improve operations across portfolio companies, focusing on AI-driven automation and data integrations. The company is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers to embed with portfolio companies and ship production systems, as well as Software Engineering Interns to contribute to their internal operational platform.

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Likely interview questions

  • Walk us through a time you shipped an end-to-end software solution (frontend, backend, integrations) in someone else's codebase or unfamiliar stack. How did you get up to speed and what was your approach?
  • Tell us about a real agentic or LLM-powered system you've built in production. What were the hardest parts — prompts, evals, autonomy tuning, or keeping it from going off the rails?
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