# Forward Deployed Engineer at Rowspace

- Company: Rowspace
- What the company does: Backed by Sequoia.
- Company website: https://www.rowspace.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: New York City
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $275K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-04-20
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rowspace/3b4dfc78-d672-4499-88ad-6826346bef26
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/rowspace-forward-deployed-engineer-2/

## About the role

We're looking for founding Forward Deployed Engineers who thrive at the intersection of deep technical work and customer impact. You'll own the technical customer relationship post-sale, embedding in their workflows, building production-grade, deeply integrated solutions on their data, and driving real, meaningful outcomes.

## What they're looking for

- 2–5+ years as a software engineer or in a technical customer-facing role (FDE, solutions engineer/architect, implementation engineer) — ideally at a company where you shipped directly to customers
- Strong technical foundation — proficient in Python and SQL, comfortable working across the stack and in messy real-world data environments (PDFs, Excel models, inconsistent formats)
- Familiar with AI/ML concepts — RAG, embeddings, LLMs, retrieval systems. You don't train models, but you debug and optimize them
- Customer and outcome-obsessed — you're genuinely curious about how customers' systems work, and you measure success by what changes for them, not by what you shipped
- High agency and a builder's mindset — something breaks on-site with a customer, you fix it. You enjoy building solutions and figure things out without waiting to be told what to do
- Strong communicator — you translate customer pain into engineering priorities and explain complex systems to non-technical stakeholders

Tags: Engineering