AI-powered forecasting & replenishment for grocery. Backed by Y Combinator.
About the role
As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Guac, you'll be the technical bridge between our products and our customers. You'll work directly with grocery retailers — from their IT teams to their store operators — to deeply understand their business, integrate with their systems, and ship custom solutions that make our products work for them.
What they're looking for
- 3+ years of relevant software engineering experience
- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL
- Proven experience designing and implementing ETL systems across large distributed datasets (Dagster, Airflow, or similar)
- Excellent communication skills and a commercial mindset — you've worked directly with customers and can hold your own in a room with both engineers and supply chain VPs
- Comfortable operating with ambiguity and minimal process — you thrive when given a problem and trusted to figure out the solution
- AI-native: you use Claude Code, Cursor, or similar AI coding tools daily and ship significantly faster because of it
More about this role
At Guac, we're solving grocery food waste with AI. We forecast exactly how much of each product will sell, helping grocery retailers order and produce the perfect amount of inventory — and we're building AI-native tools that put those forecasts directly into the hands of store operators and buyers.
The grocery industry is enormous (it accounts for 4% of GDP) — and grocery food waste is a huge cost to grocers' bottom lines, but also to our planet.
Today, we're working with major supermarket chains in the US and Canada, and we've scaled to 7-figures in ARR. We're backed by leading investors including Y Combinator, 1984 Ventures, Collaborative Fund, and angels from Open AI, Instacart, and Citadel Securities.
We've brought together an exceptional team from Palantir, BCG, Oxford, Cambridge, and MIT to solve intellectually challenging problems and tackle food insecurity and waste with technology.
We're looking for talented forward deployed engineers in NYC to join our mission.
As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Guac, you'll be the technical bridge between our products and our customers. You'll work directly with grocery retailers — from their IT teams to their store operators — to deeply...
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