Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

 

Avallon

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

Full-time On-site New York, NY $140K - $210K

$140K–$210K base salary + 0.2 - 0.7% equity

About this role

We are looking for a Founding Software Engineer with 4–6 years of experience to take true end-to-end ownership of the core platform powering Avallon's AI agents — the infrastructure that's already live with top-10 insurance carriers and scaling at 25x revenue growth. This is a high-agency, zero-hand-holding role at a 6-person YC- backed team where you design systems, orchestrate AI agents, and ship production code on a weekly cycle.

What will you be doing?

Own entire platform components end-to-end — from evaluation pipelines and model reliability to document parsing and agent execution infrastructure.

Build and maintain reliability systems: retries, circuit breakers, failover, observability, and canary deployments.

Design and ship the eval platform that catches regressions before customers do, including per-run evals and automated regression detection.

Collaborate closely with forward-deployed engineers to rapidly spec, build, and ship solutions surfaced directly from customer pain points.

Shape developer platform tooling, CI/CD workflows, and coding agent integrations to unlock team velocity.

Key Requirements

TypeScript and SQL as primary production languages — must be clearly evidenced on resume or GitHub.

Hands-on AWS experience in a production environment.

Startup experience (Seed–Series B) with demonstrated end-to-end ownership of a core platform component — not just feature contributions.

Experience in a regulated or security-sensitive environment (fintech, insurtech, healthtech) where auditability and traceability were hard requirements.

A public artifact (GitHub, personal site, publication) showing genuine engineering interest outside of day-to-day employment.

 

 

2 - 5 years of experience

in forward deployed engineering, solutions/sales engineering or customer-facing software engineering

Salary

$140K - $210K ($140K–$210K base salary + 0.2 - 0.7% equity)

Equity

0.2-0.7%

Visa sponsorship not available

On-site work policy

5 days in-office in New York, NY

Full-time position

Location

New York, NY

Report to

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-guin/

Tech stack

TypeScript, SQL, AWS, CI/CD, AI Agents, LLMs, Multi-provider LLM routing, Eval pipelines, Canary deployments

About Avallon

Avallon automates insurance claims operations with AI agents that handle routine calls and documents processing.

Team size

8 employees Founded

2025

Website

www.avallon.ai/ LinkedIn

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Total funding

$5M Company locations

New York City, NY

 

 

About the team

Very Small Early Engineering Team: Currently four people, all engineers, working closely together to build the core platform

Experienced Founders: Cornelius has prior founding and engineering experience, including building tech infrastructure for a German car subscription startup in the U.S

Hands-On & Customer-Facing: Team members split time between coding, product discovery, and interacting with customers, especially in early B2B SaaS/insurance contexts

Tech stack

TypeScript, SQL, AWS, CI/CD, AI Agents, LLMs, Multi-provider LLM routing, Eval pipelines, Canary deployments

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