Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

Job summary

Responsibilities

You'll join as a founding member of Glean's forward deployed team and operate with the autonomy and accountability of a founder. Your job is to discover and build Glean's next generation of product surfaces, working in a pod with Forward Deployed PMs directly with the C-suite of the world's most…

• Discover and build Glean's next product surfaces: Your primary job is 0-to-1 product creation. Nothing about what you're building is predefined - you'll work with your FDPM to…
• Lead deep opportunity discovery: Before you write a line of code, you go deep on the business. What's structurally broken? Where is the biggest concentration of unsolved value?…
• Be a technical partner to the C-suite: You'll earn trust at the highest levels of your customer organizations - not just with technical teams, but with the executives who are…
• Scale what works Once something works, you'll make it repeatable - working closely with the core R&D team to ensure the product is scalable
• Stay at the frontier with Glean's R&D team: You'll work closely with Glean's core engineering and product teams, staying ahead of what's possible on the platform and actively…

What they're looking for

• You think like a founder. When you walk into a customer, you're curious about the business, digging into what's broken, and figuring out what to build that doesn't yet exist.
• 0-to-1 build track record: You've built production software from scratch in ambiguous environments. You can point to something that didn't exist before you showed up and is now…
• Production AI experience: You've shipped AI-powered solutions in the real world - prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks, deployment at scale.
• Full-stack technical depth: Strong programming skills across the stack with a deep understanding of and experience with how enterprise systems actually work.
• Business acumen: You can walk into a customer, identify where the real problems are, and connect that diagnosis to a product hypothesis - without being handed a brief.