Forward Deployed Engineer
About the role
As a Forward Deployed Software Engineer at Northslope, you will be responsible for helping our customers solve their most valuable problems, working closely with stakeholders to conceive, architect, build, and maintain applications that make a measurable impact on their business. Day to day, you’ll understand a customer’s most critical objectives and build operationalized workflows on their enterprise data that end users actually use to make change within the business.
You’ll iterate quickly, build from scratch, and help organizations transform their operations at uncommon speed. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you won’t just ship code - you’ll help reshape how entire organizations work by putting powerful tools in the hands of executives and real operators.
What We Look For
- An obsession with helping your customer win, even when it goes beyond the original “scope”. You eat hard customer problems for breakfast and take pride in delivering solutions that actually drive value.
- Strong analytical abilities and problem-solving aptitude. You love breaking down complex problems and building end-to-end solutions that actually work.
- Proficiency in Python and/or Typescript. We build in these languages everyday.
- Ability to work independently and own outcomes autonomously. You'll always have support, but we're looking for teammates who want to be in the driver's seat and fully own their work.
- Demonstrated ability to build applications that use large structured and unstructured datasets in a production environment. We take a customer's data and make it valuable to them - this is our bread and butter.
- A track record of delivering real-world outcomes with code. As a software engineer, data scientist, or deeply technical analytics lead, you've helped an organization up its game through the software you've written and/or the analytical products you've built.
- Strong ability to collaborate with internal and external teammates with varying levels of technical proficiency. We embed with our customers and join their teams, you'll need both technical and people skills to succeed.
- Willingness to travel as-needed for client implementation work. Every project is different, but typically projects involve travel 10-33% of the time.
- Enthusiasm for working hybrid-in-person at our London, New York, Washington D.C or Denver offices and onsite with our customers.
Preferred but not required to be successful
- A bachelor's or masters degree in Computer Science
- Experience with Palantir Foundry and/or AIP
- Experience delivering production ML and/or LLM-based solutions
- Experience delivering production frontend applications in React
- Experience with Spark and distributed compute.
About Northslope Technologies
About Northslope
Northslope builds mission-specific AI applications for the world's most ambitious organizations. We work on mission-critical problems across healthcare, energy, manufacturing, financial services, aviation, supply chain, national security, and more, building an AI application layer that creates compounding AI advantages at each of our customers.
Ontology-first AI is the only option for enterprises who aim to lead their industries for the next 100 years. We're building the applications that make that possible.
How We Work
We do true forward deployed engineering. That means high urgency and ownership. You work directly with customers who are dominating their industries, building mission-specific software that creates lasting competitive advantages.
No proof-of-concepts or dashboards. We share an obsession with owning our customers' success as our own, alongside our teammates at Palantir.
Why Join Us
At Northslope, you will:
- Work on problems that actually matter.
- Build applications that transform industries.
- Learn from Palantir alumni and sharp, low-ego teammates.
- Shape what forward deployed engineering looks like at scale.
We offer competitive compensation, full benefits, and all the perks you’d expect from a modern tech startup — with the added upside of being early in the journey and scaling rapidly.
If you're energized by ownership, speed, and impact, we'd love to hear from you.
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Job details
Salary
$185,000 - $275,000
Location
Hudson Yards, London + 4 more
Funding
Total raised
$22M
Last stage
Series A
Investors
Founders
Bill Ward
Founder
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.
