About the role
We are looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer with 3-6 years of experience to embed directly with Beacon's portfolio companies, ship agentic software into live operations, and own the outcomes end-to-end. This is a Palantir-style FDE role at a software holding company — you're not writing decks, you're building running systems that compound across an entire portfolio.
What will you be doing?
- Embed with portfolio companies (portcos) to understand their operating model, earn operator trust, and identify the 2–3 highest-leverage workflow opportunities for agentic software.
- Ship the wedge — build integrations, prompts, evals, and UI surfaces to land the first agentic loop at each portco using Beacon's core platform.
- Operate and tune deployed systems post-launch, adjusting autonomy tiers and handing off cleanly to portfolio ops once stable.
- Serve as the technical face of Beacon to portco GMs — building trust, setting expectations, and ensuring the system is seen as their leverage.
- Bring patterns back to HQ and codify learnings into reusable playbooks that accelerate every future deployment in the same vertical.
Key Requirements
- Full-stack proficiency: TypeScript or Python backend, React frontend, SQL — must be able to own end-to-end delivery solo.
- Shipped production LLM/agentic software — real systems with evals, autonomy gating, and outcome tracking (not demos).
- Prior embedded or customer-facing engineering experience (e.g., Palantir FDE, solutions engineer, or deploy-and-operate model).
- Operator instincts — can read a P&L, translate business problems into technical wedges, and earn non-technical stakeholder trust quickly.
- Based in or willing to relocate to New York, NY; comfortable with frequent travel to portfolio company sites.
