Six Figure Work

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

Clera

Company websitegetclera.com (Clera, opens in new tab)

Base salary $180K  to $250K

Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in New York, NY

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  • LocationNew York, NY
  • WorkplaceRemote
  • Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
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About this job

About the Role

Own customer deployments for an early-stage SaaS company, from understanding business goals and connecting to data through delivering a trusted system with measurable impact. The role brings together data engineering, applied AI, and customer success, while also building reusable tools and practices to improve future deployments.

What You'll Do

  • Partner with revenue and operations leaders to understand business objectives and identify valuable problems to solve.

  • Lead customer onboarding, scope data access, and map undocumented warehouse schemas to business concepts.

  • Interview customer data and business teams to reconcile conflicting definitions and validate the resulting ontology.

  • Build customer-facing signals and workflows, including custom agent configurations, and troubleshoot their outputs.

  • Agree on success measures, analyze results, and build a credible evidence-based case for customer impact.

  • Develop reusable validation frameworks, evaluation harnesses, and mapping tools to accelerate deployments.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 3 years of experience in a technical, customer-facing role such as forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, or software engineering with substantial customer exposure.

  • Strong SQL and dbt skills, with deep familiarity navigating data warehouses and undocumented schemas.

  • A quantitative degree in statistics, mathematics, computer science, or a comparable field, plus a foundation in data science or machine learning.

  • Applied statistics and modeling experience, including distributions, seasonality, validation design, and calibration.

  • Experience creating custom agent setups beyond default implementations and building analytical cases tied to customer outcomes.

  • Ability to resolve inconsistent business definitions through interviews and data validation, with careful attention to detail and comfort working through ambiguity.

  • Founder experience or a non-traditional path into engineering is a plus.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary is $180,000 to $250,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in New York City, United States.

Source: Clera on Ashby · View original posting (opens in new tab)

Pay in context

This role's base floor ($180,000) is above 53% of the 449 Data & ML roles in New York listed on this site; 25 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $175,500; the middle half runs from $150,000 to $200,000.

Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 5, 2026.

This range next to 6 other live Clera roles with the nearest advertised base floor
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This range next to 6 other live Clera roles with the nearest advertised base floor
RolePublished base
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer (this listing)$180K - $250K
Head of Engineering$180K - $220K
Founding Applied AI Engineer$180K - $230K
QA Engineer$180K - $200K
Forward Deployed Engineer$180K - $220K
Founding Engineer$180K - $250K
Founding Product Engineer$180K - $250K

Same $100K to $400K scale as every card. All Clera roles · How to read the bar

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Employer-stated posting date
2026-10-30
Where this pay comes from

Location as the employer wrote it: New York (remote)

Base salary is $180,000 to $250,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

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