Forward Deployed Engineer (New York) Company: Confidential — new kind of software holding company Location: New York, NY (in office 3+ days per week, 4 preferred; 2-3 days per week travel to East Coast portfolio companies) Compensation: $185,000 - $240,000 + competitive equity Employment Type: Full-time Visa Sponsorship: Visa sponsorship available About the Company The client is a new kind of software holding company that buys, builds, grows and holds great vertical market software businesses. The team are technology entrepreneurs, not a financial firm. Founded in 2024, Beacon has raised $250M and has about 85 people. The Role Beacon is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers (3-6 years) to embed with its portfolio companies, ship agentic software into live operations and own the outcomes end to end. This is a Palantir-style role: you build running systems that compound across an entire portfolio. What You Will Do • Embed with portfolio companies, earn operator trust and find the highest-leverage workflows for agentic software. • Build integrations, prompts, evals and UI to land the first agentic loop at each company. • Operate and tune deployed systems after launch and hand off cleanly once stable. • Act as the technical face of Beacon to portfolio company leaders. • Codify learnings into reusable playbooks for future deployments. What You Bring • 3-6 years of full-stack, customer-facing software engineering or forward deployed engineering • TypeScript or Python backend, React frontend and SQL, with solo end-to-end delivery • Shipped production LLM or agentic software with evals and outcome tracking • Operator instincts and the ability to earn non-technical stakeholder trust Nice to Have • Snowflake, Databricks or Apache Iceberg • Vertical software experience Benefits Health, vision and dental insurance. Tech Stack TypeScript, Python, React, SQL, LLMs, agentic workflows, evals, Snowflake, Databricks, Apache Iceberg Before you apply: get a free recruiter-readiness score for your resume at CareerStanding — about a minute, no signup, and your resume stays in your browser.