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# Forward Deployed Engineer

- **Company:** THE GUAC INC.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $150,000.0 - $250,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Airflow, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Cursor, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Claude Code, AI Coding Agents
- **Published:** September 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/4fbcf179-3f0f-4b1f-9e1c-e1d65e1539c7/forward-deployed-engineer

## About the Role

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 * 3+ years of relevant software engineering experience
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 * Strong proficiency in Python and SQL
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 * Proven experience designing and implementing ETL systems across large distributed datasets (Dagster, Airflow, or similar)
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 * Excellent communication skills and a commercial mindset - you've worked directly with customers and can hold your own in a room with both engineers and supply chain VPs
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 * Comfortable operating with ambiguity and minimal process - you thrive when given a problem and trusted to figure out the solution
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 * AI-native: you use Claude Code, Cursor, or similar AI coding tools daily and ship significantly faster because of it

## Description

At Guac, we're solving grocery food waste with AI. We forecast exactly how much of each product will sell, helping grocery retailers order and produce the perfect amount of inventory - and we're building AI-native tools that put those forecasts directly into the hands of store operators and buyers.