Backed by Y Combinator and a16z speedrun.
About the role
The Forward Deployed Engineer is how Metal goes from a promising platform to software that lives inside how a firm actually runs its investment process. You will embed with one of our most strategic customers, a leading private capital firm, and own the last mile from scoping session to production system.
What they're looking for
- You ship production software. 3 to 5+ years building and operating real systems end to end, from commit to live operation. Comfortable full-stack and unafraid of messy integrations
- You build with AI, you don't just follow it. Hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered systems (agents, retrieval, evals), and fluency in a toolkit that changes every month
- You do your best work close to the customer. You can earn executive trust, run a room, and stay hands-on from the first scoping call through go-live
- Entrepreneurial mindset. You thrive in ambiguity, take initiative, and want to write the playbook others will follow
- Bonus: depth in private equity, private credit, or financial services, where much of our current work lives
More about this role
Metal is building the world's most powerful intelligence platform for private market investors, putting cutting-edge AI in the hands of the most sophisticated firms on the planet.
In private markets, one thing defines success: the quality of your investment outcomes. Metal is the infrastructure-first platform built to sharpen every decision and build conviction across the full deal lifecycle, from sourcing to exit. Top-tier firms already run on Metal to move faster and invest smarter. Adoption is compounding, the category is ours to define, and we're backed to win it.
Our team is sharp, low-ego, and obsessed with the people we build for. We take ownership of hard, ambiguous problems and we move fast. If you do your best work close to the customer, we'd love to meet you.
The Forward Deployed Engineer is how Metal goes from a promising platform to software that lives inside how a firm actually runs its investment process. You will embed with one of our most strategic customers, a leading private capital firm, and own the last mile from scoping session to production system.
You sit at the intersection of a top-tier investment team and their AI evolution. You pair real engineering...
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