# Forward Deployed Engineer at Granica

- Company: Granica
- What the company does: Granica reduces the cost of enterprise AI across data storage, data processing, and agent compute. Everything runs inside your perimeter, and you keep the intelligence your data builds. Backed by NEA.
- Company website: https://www.granica.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Bay Area Office
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $160K to $220K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-17
- Apply by: 2026-11-01
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/granica/165a62b6-014d-4d83-a800-a0ff3b205745
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/granica-forward-deployed-engineer/

## About the role

Granica is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to become the technical bridge between our customers, Engineering, Product, and GTM teams. You will work directly inside complex enterprise data environments to understand workloads, investigate performance and cost problems, deploy Granica, run technical evaluations, and turn the results into clear customer recommendations.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years in Forward Deployed Engineering, Data Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Sales Engineering, or a similarly hands-on technical role
- Strong hands-on Apache Spark experience , including production workloads, debugging, performance tuning, and distributed execution behavior
- Strong understanding of distributed data systems and modern cloud data infrastructure
- Experience with lakehouse technologies such as Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, Parquet, Hive, or comparable systems
- Strong SQL skills and proficiency in Python, Scala, Java, or another relevant programming language
- Experience diagnosing performance or reliability problems using data and experimentation

Tags: GTM