Glean
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
About this role
Join Glean as a founding forward deployed engineer to build next-generation AI product surfaces directly with enterprise C-suite customers. You'll operate with founder-level autonomy discovering and shipping entirely new products that solve critical business problems, with your innovations deployed across Glean's global customer base.
What you'll do
- Conduct deep opportunity discovery with strategic customers to identify unsolved business problems
- Design and build new product surfaces from 0-to-1 with minimal predefined constraints
- Partner with forward deployed PMs and engineering teams on product innovation
- Ship new features and products to Glean's entire customer base
- Pressure-test hypotheses directly with C-suite executives at major enterprises
- Own the full lifecycle from discovery through validation and deployment
What they're looking for
- Full-stack software engineering and product development
- Enterprise software architecture and scalability
- API design and integration
- AI/ML platform understanding
- Customer discovery and business problem analysis
- Autonomous project ownership and execution
- Rapid prototyping and iteration
- Technical communication with non-technical stakeholders
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Glean
Glean builds a Work AI platform that helps enterprises access and leverage their internal data intelligently. The company is hiring backend engineers, infrastructure specialists, fullstack engineers, and billing platform leads to develop scalable features, robust data infrastructure, consumption-based billing systems, and enterprise-grade storage and analytics capabilities.
- Website
- glean.com
Likely interview questions
- Tell us about a time you built a product from scratch (0-to-1) with significant ambiguity. How did you approach discovery, and what did you learn?
- Describe your experience working directly with C-suite or senior stakeholders to understand their business problems. How do you translate those conversations into engineering priorities?