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Forward Deployed Engineer

Sola · New York City · On-site

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About Sola

Sola is an agentic process automation platform that makes it easy for companies to automate data entry, scraping, and processing flows using LLMs and computer vision – delivering results much faster and with less effort than traditional RPA tools. Backed by Y Combinator, a16z and Conviction.

About the role

As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Sola, you'll combine hands-on technical execution with customer-facing communication and partnership. Dive deep on customer workflow failures using logs, browser tools, APIs, and code, then implement and verify fixes Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • We're open to early-career engineers, new graduates with demonstrated programming ability, or strong customer-facing engineers who are comfortable writing production code
  • Strong technical foundations, whether from a CS degree with demonstrated coding abilities, or hands-on experience in a strong technical environment
  • Flexibility to move across different customer environments, with a solid understanding of how core web technologies work and the ability to dive into complex desktop or legacy systems
  • A strong sense of curiosity and a drive to go anywhere needed to solve tricky customer problems
  • Excellent communication skills, and a demonstrated ability to turn complex technical findings into clear non-technical explanations
  • You'll work 5 days a week out of our office in NYC (we'll cover relocation!) and occasionally travel to customers as needed
More about this role

AI has transformed how we write, communicate, and build software. The next frontier is even bigger: transforming how businesses actually operate. That's what we're building at Sola.

Sola is an AI-native platform reinventing enterprise process automation and disrupting legacy RPA tools. Our AI agents can execute complex workflows across any application, browser, desktop, or legacy system—free from the limitations and fragility of traditional automation tools. Users simply record their screen, and Sola creates a custom agent to run that process at scale.

The opportunity at hand is enormous. Nearly every enterprise, across every industry, runs on processes that are still painfully manual. We're building the technology to change that. And we're just getting started.

We're hiring a small group of Forward Deployed Engineers to help bring Sola to the world's largest enterprises and rewrite the playbook for how automation is built in the enterprise.

Enterprise automation is one of the biggest opportunities in AI. Legacy automation platforms have been constrained by rigid rules, complex implementations, and brittle workflows.. Sola is changing that with AI agents that can reason, adapt,...

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