Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

Elevate (YC S24) is hiring high-autonomy, analytical Forward Deployed Engineers to help build the AI execution layer for the real economy.

The most valuable AI systems won’t be designed from a conference room. They’ll be built by getting deep into real businesses, understanding how work actually happens, and turning messy operational processes into repeatable software.

What you'll do:

• Own deployments end-to-end: Understand the business problem, map the underlying processes and systems, ingest and transform data, build the solution, deploy it, and iterate with the customer
• Build AI systems that do real work: Turn manual operational processes into software and agentic workflows that can execute autonomously
• Shape the core Elevate platform: Identify patterns across deployments and work directly with engineering to turn bespoke solutions into reusable infrastructure and product
• Model complex businesses in data: Unify fragmented systems, define canonical business logic, and create the context layer that allows AI to reason and act reliably
• Work directly with customers: Partner with CFOs, operators, integration leaders, and other executives at sophisticated acquisition-driven businesses
• Help drive expansion and GTM: Identify where Elevate can solve additional problems and participate in the conversations that shape new products and customer relationships

Full details and application on the official Elevate careers page.