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# Forward Deployed Engineer

- **Company:** Winter Venture LLC
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $150,000.0 - $275,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Spreadsheets, Databases, Customer Data Management, Python (Programming Language), SQL Databases, Unstructured Data, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Large Language Models, Backend, Agentic-AI, Codebase
- **Published:** October 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/apply/ats-redirect/?id=3006994336-2

## About the Role

* 3 or more years of professional experience as a full-stack or backend software engineer, shipping production systems.
 * Strong proficiency in Python and SQL, with comfort navigating codebases and working with unstructured data.
 * Direct customer-facing technical experience in a revenue-generating capacity, such as solutions engineering, field development, or technical account management.
 * Track record of working in early-stage or AI-native companies, demonstrating an ability to build in ambiguous, resource-constrained environments.
 * Solid grasp of AI and ML concepts including RAG, embeddings, LLMs, vector databases, and agentic workflows, plus the communication skills to explain them to non-technical stakeholders.
 * Evidence of revenue impact or direct involvement in sales cycles, not just a purely technical perspective on customer work.
 * Strong CS fundamentals, ideally backed by a technical degree.
 * Exposure to or genuine interest in financial services, particularly alternative asset management workflows.

## Description

This is a high-impact technical role at a well-funded AI data platform serving the alternative investments space, including private equity, private credit, and venture capital firms. You will own the full technical customer relationship, bridging pre-sales engineering and post-sales implementation to drive measurable outcomes for some of the most demanding data users in finance.
What You'll Do

 * Build and demo custom solutions directly on customer data, connecting structured and unstructured sources such as PDFs, spreadsheets, and databases.
 * Own pre-sales technical work: create reusable demo environments, run private demos on prospect data, and shape deal strategy alongside the go-to-market team.
 * Support post-sales implementations, including data integrations, evaluations, and feedback loops in collaboration with product engineers.
 * Manage technical relationships at customer firms, sitting alongside analysts to understand their workflows firsthand.
 * Translate recurring customer patterns into product insights, identifying what should be productized versus handled as a one-off solution.