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Lead Forward Deployed Engineer

SalesPatriot · San Francisco · On-site

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About SalesPatriot

We deploy AI into supply chains that the West depends on. Backed by Y Combinator, Pear VC and CRV.

About the role

Go. Fly out and plant yourself inside the customer's operation. Weekdays are onsite (Wisconsin, New York, Miami, Los Angeles); weekends we regroup at the SF HQ to debrief and keep building. Understand. Map how the company actually operates, from sales and supply chain teams to executives and CEOs. Learn the breakpoints choking their growth and speed. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • You've owned customer-facing technical work before and can point to results you delivered
  • You own the account. You set technical direction with the customer's executives and IT, decide what gets built first, and tell them no when they're asking for the wrong thing
  • You make scoping and trade-off calls on your own, without waiting for sign-off
  • You've mentored or managed engineers. Here you're accountable for the FDEs on your accounts hitting their outcomes
  • Strong full-stack engineer: TypeScript, at least one frontend framework (React, Svelte, Next, etc), and SQL, preferably Postgres. You still ship production code every week
  • You can earn trust with procurement specialists while navigating executive priorities and IT constraints
More about this role

America's industrial base runs on systems built in the 1980s.

Billions of dollars in critical components (F-35 parts, industrial assemblies, electronics, bolts, and hoses) still move through email threads, excel sheets, and disconnected ERPs.

We're replacing that with an AI-native platform that makes aerospace, electronics, industrial, and defense supply-chain operations nearly autonomous. Faster quoting. Faster procurement. Full visibility. Real operational intelligence for the companies our nation depends on.

YC W25 company. Top 5% growth in batch

Raised $10M+ from investors including Paul Graham, SV Angel, Pear VC, and CRV

Team of 20 co-live in our Warsaw & SF Hacker Houses

7 figure ARR transacting ~$50M a week through our system

Go. Fly out and plant yourself inside the customer's operation. Weekdays are onsite (Wisconsin, New York, Miami, Los Angeles); weekends we regroup at the SF HQ to debrief and keep building.

Understand. Map how the company actually operates, from sales and supply chain teams to executives and CEOs. Learn the breakpoints choking their growth and speed.

Implement. Configure automations within SP Studio tooling so the platform accurately reflects the...

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