Forward Deployed Engineer - SF-based intern

Along the way, you build your own knowledge that helps the next account go 5 to 10x too. Some of it lives in one account forever. The best of it graduates into the product.

Whatever the account size, you're always in front of the person who owns growth: a CEO, a C-level, a Head of. And no two weeks look alike.

What you'll do

• Land small accounts in 30-minute calls, and show them how to build what couldn't be done before.
• Land large accounts over days in their offices, understand their growth strategy, and build the workflow with them.
• Build everything that needs building inside our MCP product and MCP acquisition funnel.
• Use your own MCP to become a living example of the most efficient sales rep in the world.
• Here's what your first 30 / 60 / 90 days look like: 30 days meeting as many self-serve users as you can and shipping as many agentic systems as possible; 60 days building your library of what works; 90 days building your own skillset and walking into the offices of much bigger customers.

Who you are

Technically capable and socially skilled. Both. Not one.

You can be in a room with a VP of Sales at 9am and writing Python at 2pm, and you're not faking either one.

You probably have nothing on your CV that predicts success here. No FDE title, maybe not the right degree, maybe not much work experience at all. We care about what you've built and how you think.

You spend evenings building AI skills, vibe-coding side projects, testing new tools, figuring things out because you enjoy it. You're usually the first person you know to try the new thing.

You'd rather ship something hacky that works today than something clean next month. You're comfortable saying "I don't know, let me go find out" in front of a customer.

Leadbay is part of a much bigger career journey (most likely toward becoming a YC founder). Ludo, Milan, and the broader YC ecosystem will help you grow fast.

We're not a great fit for people who need to be told exactly what to do, struggle to make judgment calls, wait for constant validation, or care more about "whose fault is it?" than "how do we make it work?"

We work low-overhead. One weekly team coordination meeting, everything else in service of doing the work. GitHub Projects, weekly iterations, English.

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.