Forward Deployed Engineer

 

Beacon Software

Forward Deployed Engineer (New York)

Full-time Hybrid New York, NY San Francisco Toronto, Canada $185K - $240K

$185K – $240K base salary + competitive equity

About this 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.

3 - 6 years of experience

in full-stack, customer-facing software/product engineering OR forward deployed engineering

Salary

$185K - $240K ($185K – $240K base salary + competitive equity)

Equity

Competitive equity

Visa sponsorship available

Open to H1Bs and relocation

Hybrid work policy

Minimum of 3 days in-office (4 days preferred). 2-3 days per week of travel to portfolio company locations on East Coast.

Full-time position

Location

New York, NY, San Francisco, Toronto, Canada

Report to

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gouthambuchi/

Tech stack

TypeScript, Python, React, SQL, LLMs / Foundation Models, Agentic Workflows, Evals, Snowflake, Databricks, Apache Iceberg, Event-driven Systems

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.

Team size

85 employees Founded

2024

Website

beaconsoftware.com/ LinkedIn

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Total funding

$250M Company locations

New York +2

About the team

Nilam Ganenthiran - Co-Founder & CEO Former President of Instacart and Partner at D1 Capital

Divya Gupta - Co-Founder & CTO Former Partner at Sequoia Capital and Engineer at Databricks

Tech stack

 

 

TypeScript, Python, React, SQL, LLMs / Foundation Models, Agentic Workflows, Evals, Snowflake, Databricks, Apache Iceberg, Event-driven Systems

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