Forward Deployed Engineer (San Francisco)

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.