Forward Deployed Engineer (Toronto)
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.
About Beacon Software
Beacon Software is a new type of software holding company with the mission to buy, build, grow and hold great vertical market software businesses.
We are not a financial firm. We are technology entrepreneurs who are passionate about building great software. We seek out founders who have built their business by spending years understanding their market and prioritizing their customers-specific needs. Our flexible structure offers entrepreneurs a unique option to implement a transition that ensures the continuity of the company while receiving liquidity at full value for their equity in their business. Beacon acquires companies with the intent to hold them forever and to invest in their continued growth. We have a permanent, committed capital base with a long-term time horizon and no pressure/intent to sell to another buyer.
On November 4, 2025, we announced our $250M Series B (press release). Our capital comes from a diverse set of investors including Wall Street (D1 Capital, CPMG), Silicon Valley (General Catalyst), the family offices of great technology entrepreneurs (John & Patrick Collison, Tony Xu, Eric Glyman, Karim Atiyeh) and evergreen funds which specialize in buy/hold models (Sator Grove).
Beacon Software was founded by entrepreneurs Nilam Ganenthiran (former President of Instacart and partner at D1 Capital) and Divya Gupta (former partner at Sequoia Capital) both of whom have spent their careers investing in, scaling and building high growth technology businesses.
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Job details
Salary
CA$180,000 - CA$260,000
Location
New York, Toronto + 1 more
Experience
3+ years
Company
Funding
Total raised
$335M
Last stage
Series B
Investors
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.