Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

We’ve proven that we’re solving an extremely urgent need. Now we need your help to scale it.

🧠 The Role

This is not a traditional FDE role. On top of working directly with our customers to solve their back-office pain, you’ll also be building frontier agentic systems that will define how the most AI-forward CPG brands operate. Moreover, you’ll take full ownership of how Corvera serves our customers.

For the most part, you will go from customer problem to real-world impact within hours and own problems end-to-end. This includes:

• Talking directly to customers to understand workflows
• Designing systems that model real business processes
• Building agent-driven workflows that execute across systems
• Shipping production features fast and iterating in real-time
• Improving reliability, observability, and correctness of agent systems
• Defining the forward-deployed model that Corvera adopts moving forward
• Anything else that needs to be done to make Corvera a success

In your first 30 days, you’ll ship an integration for a major retailer portal (like Walmart or Target) that our agents use to pull real-time inventory data, onboard 7 new customers onto Corvera and configure the product to suit their requirements, and work with the team to optimize the Corvera platform to allow us to even more rapidly onboard the next 100 customers. Lord knows what you’ll end up doing in the next 30 days.

🧬 What We’re Looking For

We care far more about how you think and behave than what’s on your CV.

You might be a great fit if you:

• Want to operate at the cutting edge of AI
• Have built and shipped production systems end-to-end
• Are an excellent, self-aware, and charismatic communicator
• Bring energy along with you into every call and room
• Move fast and default to action
• Are comfortable with ambiguity and undefined problems
• Are naturally competitive, both with yourself and your peers
• Have the ability to both zoom in to control the details and zoom out to structure the system
• Care deeply about real-world outcomes (not just code)
• Have high standards, even under speed
• Have proven the ability to work tirelessly
• Have insatiable ambition and want nothing more than to build the next Silicon Valley unicorn

This role is not for you if you:

• Are looking for a “9–5” or a role with clear boundaries
• Optimize for elegance over impact
• Are uncomfortable talking directly to customers or owning outcomes end-to-end
• Need heavy structure, process, or management to be effective
• Want to stay within the bounds of “just engineering”
• Don’t want to replace entire teams with software

This aside, we do also care about your achievements and need folks who can hit the ground running. As such, you should:

• Have 2–5+ years of experience building and shipping production systems end-to-end
• Be comfortable working across the stack (backend, APIs, data, infra; frontend is a plus)
• Have experience designing scalable, fault-tolerant systems in ambiguous environments
• Be able to model real-world workflows into software abstractions
• Have strong fundamentals in:
• Distributed systems
• Data modeling and system design
• API design and integrations (ERP systems, third-party tools, etc.)
• Be comfortable debugging complex, non-deterministic systems (e.g., AI/agent workflows)
• Have experience (or strong interest) in:
• LLMs, agents, or workflow orchestration
• Observability, evaluation, and reliability of AI systems

The following are nice-to-haves:

• Early-stage fast-paced startup experience
• Experience working on retailer, wholesaler, or CPG brand use-cases

🌍 Why Join

We can say all the standard stuff - that you’ll be working directly with customers from day one, that you’ll be defining how AI agents actually operate in real-world businesses, that you’ll have real ownership, and that you’ll be helping us shape our product at a critical inflection point.

But really, the reason why you should join is that we are genuinely a great bunch to work with, we care deeply about each other, and we work extremely hard and have a ton of fun doing so. 

The current team (4 of us) live together. Not because we have to, but because we want to - we’re all really great friends! And that shows in the workplace too - we trust each other entirely, and the last thing any of us wants to do is to let each other down. 

We do pretty much everything together. We go on runs together. We go clubbing together. We go on trips together. So there’s nothing more important to us than making sure we only invite those who add to our energy to join Corvera.

So what’s in it for you? You get to be an integral part of all of this. You wouldn’t be forced to move in with us, but you’ll probably want to do so because you won’t find better housemates anywhere else!

And of course, we offer an attractive compensation package including options in Corvera. Our range for this role is $200-400K p.a. (base + stock). But if compensation is the only thing you’re optimizing for, you should perhaps look elsewhere.

If instead what you’re looking for is the ride of a lifetime, then you’ll fit right in.

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