Forward Deployed Engineer

Forward Deployed Engineer

Company: Eagle
Location: New York, NY (SoHo office; travel Monday-Thursday 2-3 weeks a month during the first 100 days after each acquisition)
Compensation: $200,000 - $300,000 + 0.1% - 0.75% equity
Employment Type: Full-time
Visa Sponsorship: Visa transfers and new sponsorship (H-1B, TN)

About Eagle

Eagle is an AI holding company transforming the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry by acquiring civil, structural and MEP engineering firms and modernizing them with applied AI. Its thesis: 85% of what engineers do is theoretically automatable, yet less than 5% has been touched by AI.

Eagle is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners with a $5M seed and is "default alive" because the firms it acquires are profitable businesses.

The Role

Eagle is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers (5-10 years) to embed directly inside the engineering firms it acquires, own the full arc from discovery to shipped software, and build the relationships that make AI adoption stick. This is a true FDE role with real agency to find problems, build the tools and drive outcomes.

What You Will Do

• Embed on-site at acquired engineering firms, earn staff trust and find the highest-leverage workflows to automate.
• Own the full deployment lifecycle: discovery, build, ship, debug in production and iterate with real users.
• Turn noisy user feedback into a clear opinion on what to build and what not to build.
• Own the user relationship, run working sessions and grow scope independently.
• Feed every on-site lesson back into Eagle's platform so wins compound across acquisitions.

What You Bring

• 5+ years of full-stack product engineering with customer-facing or forward-deployed work
• Strong English fluency and the poise to earn trust with non-technical users
• Willingness to travel Monday-Thursday, 2-3 weeks a month during the first 100 days after an acquisition
• Proven product instincts: turning user pain into a build decision and shipping it without hand-holding
• At least one strong signal: a recognizable seed-to-Series C startup or a top technical education

Tech Stack

Next.js, Vercel, Tailwind CSS, Kotlin, Python, AWS, Pulumi, LLMs, RAG, agent frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex), OpenAI APIs, document parsing, browser automation, AEC software integrations

REVENUE: 21.25% of first-year salary. Est. fee per hire $43K-$64K; 4 seat(s) = up to $213K if all filled.

TARGET COMPANIES (suggested): Palantir, Procore, Autodesk, Bentley Systems, seed-Series C startups.

BEST-FIT CANDIDATE: 5-10 yrs; full-stack + forward-deployed; travel 2-3 wks/mo; startup or top-school signal; visa: transfers + new H-1B/TN; location: NYC SoHo + travel.