# Forward Deployed Engineer - Strategic Account at Metal

- Company: Metal
- What the company does: Backed by Y Combinator and a16z speedrun.
- Company website: http://www.metal.so
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: New York City
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $240K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-26
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/metal/536f32ad-b84f-4164-9ed2-9928c9aac7a5
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/metal-forward-deployed-engineer-strategic-account/

## 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

Tags: Engineering