# Forward Deployed Engineer at Beacon

- Company: Beacon
- What the company does: Beacon acquires and grows essential businesses. With our centralized platform, we empower founders with the technology and expertise to better serve their customers. Backed by General Catalyst.
- Company website: https://beaconsoftware.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: New York, NY
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-05-19
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/beaconsoftware/dadb4654-dc89-4bc2-ae32-7d226423fb7d
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/beacon-forward-deployed-engineer-2/

## About the role

Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) are the engineers who go where the work is. You will be embedded with one or two portfolio companies at a time — sitting with the GM, the operators, and the customer success lead — figuring out where the leverage is, and shipping agentic software directly into their operation. The platforms exist. You are the person who turns them into outcomes on a specific business.

## What they're looking for

- Customer-obsessed. You like being in the room with the operator, the GM, the customer success lead. You take the problem they actually have, not the problem they described. You are not interested in building platforms that no one uses
- High autonomy, low ego. You will be the only Beacon engineer on the ground at a portco most of the time. You need to make calls without a committee, defend them when challenged, and change your mind when you are wrong
- Strong written communicator. Beacon runs on writing. You will write the wedge memo, the GM update, the post-deployment retro, the playbook that ships to every other portco. If your writing is fuzzy, the system stays fuzzy

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