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Forward Deployed Engineer

SalesPatriotAerospace Engineering
Pay
$100K–$135K
per year
Work mode
On-site
Full Time
Level
Entry

San Francisco, CA at a glance

Rent
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$2,680/mo+46% vs US avg
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295 mild days0 hot · 0 cold
Income tax
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13.3% top rateCalifornia

What you need

TypeScriptReactGitHubSQL

The Mission

The West's industrial base runs on systems built in the 1980s.

Billions of dollars in critical components (F-35 parts, industrial assemblies, electronics, bolts, and hoses) still move through email threads, excel sheets, and disconnected ERPs.

We're replacing that with supply-chain superintelligence that makes aerospace, electronics, industrial, and defense operations nearly autonomous. Faster quoting. Faster procurement. End-to-end supply chain visibility.

Quick Facts

  • YC W25 company. Top 5% growth in batch
  • Raised $10M+ from investors including Paul Graham, SV Angel, Pear VC, and CRV
  • Team of 20 co-live in our Warsaw & SF Hacker Houses
  • 7 figure ARR transacting ~$50M a week through our system

The Job

  • Go. Fly out and plant yourself inside the customer's operation. Weekdays are onsite (Wisconsin, New York, Miami, Los Angeles); weekends we regroup at the SF HQ to debrief and keep building.
  • Understand. Map how the company actually operates, from sales and supply chain teams to executives and CEOs. Learn the breakpoints choking their growth and speed.
  • Implement. Configure automations within SP Studio tooling so the platform accurately reflects the customer's needs. Build trust and confidence in SalesPatriot.
  • Iterate. Take ownership of customer implementation under the Lead FDE's guidance, learning how to scale impact. Keep finding and killing their most pressing problems, leading org-wide scaling, until SalesPatriot is the operating system their business runs on.

Work closely with your Lead FDE to navigate customer strategy, escalations, and org-wide issues.

What We’re Looking For

  • New grads welcome. What matters is that you've built and shipped things, so bring at least one full-stack project you can show us (GitHub repo, web app, or Loom demo).
  • Strong in TypeScript and at least one frontend framework (React, Svelte, Next, etc). Comfortable with SQL, preferably Postgres.
  • You want to learn the job from an experienced Lead FDE and grow into running your own customer implementations.
  • Personable. You can sit with a procurement team, ask good questions, and come back with something that works. Customers look forward to your updates.
  • Comfortable with ambiguity. The problem you solve on Tuesday may not be the one you flew in for on Monday.
  • Ready to travel every week and relocate full-time to San Francisco. This is not a remote role.
  • Absolute grinder. Interested in co-living (though not required).
  • Low ego, curious, intellectually honest. Focused on outcomes, not on being right.

The Process

Call with engineer → 1hr technical test → Call with founder → fly out to SF HQ (on us) → offer.

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About SalesPatriot

We help defense firms win more contracts with the Pentagon

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