Founding Forward Deployed Engineer Job at Valon Tech (New York, San Francisco)

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

Valon Tech

Location:
United States , New York, San Francisco

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

130000.00 - 230000.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

You will be the Founding Forward Deployed Engineer at Valon. You’ll be the technical arm of our most strategic partnerships—rapidly building bespoke solutions that drive customer value, unblock deployments, and ultimately shape our core product. You’ll embed with our first scaled deployment, ship production software that unblocks value in days, and turn those patterns into reusable product and playbooks for future customers. This is a founder‑like role with high autonomy, clear ownership, and direct impact on revenue and roadmap.

Job Responsibility:

Own discovery and delivery end‑to‑end: scope, validate, build, deploy, and iterate in production
Accelerate deployments by building high-impact integrations and prototypes for our most strategic enterprise clients
Unblock revenue by solving the “last mile” of adoption—translating ambiguous needs into working software
Bridge product and GTM by embedding with sales, product, and customer success teams to shape deployments and inform roadmap
Act as the technical face with enterprise executives and operators
translate between business and code with credibility
Rotate between client‑embedded cycles and in‑house cycles to harden what you built and level up the platform
Build high‑leverage integrations, data pipelines, and bespoke features that become core product where it makes sense
Identify and help land true expansions post‑sale, using willingness‑to‑pay as the filter for what matters

Requirements:

You meet the same technical bar as our product engineers and have shipped meaningful systems
You’ve been a founder, FDE, or the first/early engineer who owned outcomes with customers
Experienced engineer: 1–7 years of software engineering experience, ideally with product ownership or startup DNA
Builder, not a theorist: You care about outcomes. You bias toward MVPs, fast iterations, and visible impact over perfect code
Comfortable with ambiguity: You can decompose fuzzy asks, prioritize independently, and execute without a spec
Customer-centric: You’ve worked directly with users or clients, and you can speak business and code
Owner mindset: You step up when something needs doing. You solve problems even when they “aren’t yours.”
Candidates should apply if they are willing to be based out of NY or SF, while traveling to client locations 25-50% of the time.

Nice to have:

Former founders or early-stage engineers who’ve worn multiple hats
Engineers who’ve built customer-facing features or integrations end-to-end
Forward Deployed Engineers, Solutions engineers, GTM engineers, or those with experience in consultative technical roles
Experience with LLMs, APIs, system integrations, or complex enterprise deployments is a plus

What we offer:

Competitive salary with a meaningful stake in the company via equity, and 401k plan
Comprehensive medical, dental, & vision benefits
Pre-tax deductions for public transportation, rideshare services, and parking expenses
Company wide orientation for you to successfully onboard and other learning & development opportunities including regular review cycles that feature 360 degree feedback
Quarterly budgets for team and company outings
Flexible paid time off, sick days, and 11 company holidays
12 weeks off for both birthing and non-birthing parents - fully paid

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 18, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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