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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
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About this job

About the Role

Own customer deployments for an early-stage B2B SaaS company, from initial data access through a trusted system that delivers measurable business outcomes. This founding role combines data engineering, applied AI, and customer collaboration, while building reusable tools and practices to make future deployments more effective.

What You'll Do

  • Work with customer revenue and operations leaders to understand business goals 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 establish consistent definitions and validate data mappings.

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

  • Define success measures with customers and build analysis that demonstrates the impact of deployments.

  • Turn deployment learnings into reusable validation frameworks, evaluation harnesses, and mapping tools.

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 engagement.

  • An engineering or data science background, with applied statistics or modeling experience and a degree in statistics, mathematics, computer science, or a comparable quantitative field.

  • Strong SQL and dbt skills, plus experience navigating undocumented data warehouses and resolving inconsistent business definitions.

  • Applied data science knowledge, including distributions, seasonality, validation design, and calibration.

  • Experience building custom agent setups beyond default implementations and defining metrics to demonstrate customer outcomes.

  • Experience at an early-stage startup, or a combination of large-company experience with startup or founder experience. Founder experience is valued.

  • A detail-oriented, evidence-driven approach and comfort with ambiguity and end-to-end ownership.

Compensation & Benefits

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

Location

On-site in New York City, New York.

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

Pay in context

This role's base floor ($180,000) is above 61% of the 4,162 Data & ML roles nationwide listed on this site; 117 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $166,382; the middle half runs from $136,000 to $198,900.

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 7, 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
Platform Engineer, Biotech$180K - $240K
Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)$180K - $210K
Head of Engineering$180K - $220K
Senior Robotics Engineer, Controls$180K - $200K
QA Engineer$180K - $200K
Forward Deployed Engineer$180K - $220K

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

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Employer-stated posting date
2026-11-07
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Location as the employer wrote it: New York (remote)

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

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