# Forward Deployed Engineer at Footprint

- Company: Footprint
- What the company does: Backed by Index.
- Company website: http://onefootprint.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: New York City
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $170K to $205K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-06-16
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/footprint/484f5345-2614-4188-b522-dd36cf57170a
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/footprint-forward-deployed-engineer/

## About the role

Percy runs financial-crime investigations inside our customers' operations, against their own procedures, on their real data. Getting each new customer from the first technical conversation to production - connected, configured, proven against their own analysts, trusted - is a real engineering job, and today the engineers who build Percy are the ones doing it. Footprint is signing customers fast enough that this needs to be someone's whole job. That's this role.

## What they're looking for

- 2–4 years building software, ideally including time in a customer-facing, solutions, or implementation engineering role
- Genuinely strong in at least one of Python, TypeScript, Rust, Java, C++, or any other well established language, and able to pick up an unfamiliar stack to get a customer unblocked
- A rigorous engineering foundation you can demonstrate - you reason from first principles about systems you've never seen before
- You've debugged a problem across a boundary you didn't control: someone else's API, someone else's data, someone else's environment
- Familiarity with AI/LLM agents and how to configure, build, or prompt them effectively
- You communicate clearly and credibly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, turn fuzzy requirements into a concrete plan, and stay calm when a customer is depending on you

Tags: Engineering