Member of Technical Staff, Forward-Deployed Engineering
Company websitequadrillion.ai (Quadrillion Labs, opens in new tab)
Base salary $175K to $350K
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in New York City, NY
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- LocationNew York City, NY
- WorkplaceOn-site
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (3 h ago) · observed since
About this job
As a Forward-Deployed Engineer at Quadrillion Labs, you'll represent our company in our work with our highly varied set of customers. This is not a traditional FDE role: we are looking for folks who combine enormous technical excellence with deep empathy and an ability to work with customers from a wide variety of verticals. You'll work closely with the core engineering and product teams to triage features and identify ways to improve customer outcomes.
What you'll do
Deploy Qualia into customers' real environments. Stand up Qualia in unusual enterprise environments, connect to their unique data sources, and navigate their (both engineering and business) constraints.
Build what customers need to succeed. Prototype integrations and workflows that answer customer needs, and transfer your learnings into production for all of our customers.
Manage customer/product relations. Be the first line of defense for the company; speak to our customers in Slack, over email, and in person, and get them excited about using Qualia.
Required qualifications
Strong full-stack or backend engineering experience, especially with Python
Previous experience as a FDE or previous experience in a strongly customer-facing role
Comfort working in unfamiliar codebases
Ability to move quickly in a zero-to-one environment
About this role
We work in-person 5 days a week out of our office in Midtown Manhattan. We cover generous benefits for employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, lunch and dinner covered, and other varied stipends.
We pride ourselves on a company culture that values a diversity of thoughts and opinions.
About Quadrillion
Quadrillion Labs builds Qualia, an agentic research intelligence platform that does real computational research — running experiments, analyzing data, and surfacing insight for the people who do this work at the highest level.
We're a team out of Stanford NLP, HRT, Citadel, Jane Street, Google Research, and Harvard Med, building for an audience that looks a lot like us. We've raised ~$18M from Conviction, Audacious, Bloomberg Beta, ex/ante, and angels including Wes McKinney, the creator of pandas.
We think this is the Industrial Revolution moment for research, and we're building the team to define what comes next.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Quadrillion Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We make hiring and employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We are committed to building a team where talented people can do their best work.
If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, let us know at [email protected].
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Pay in context
This role's base floor ($175,000) is above 48% of the 1,203 Software Engineering roles in New York listed on this site; 35 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $175,000; the middle half runs from $145,000 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 8, 2026.
This listingMember of Technical Staff, Forward-Deployed Engineering$175K to $350K
Member of Technical Staff$175K to $350K
Member of Technical Staff, Frontend$175K to $350K
Member of Technical Staff, Research$275K to $500K
Research Intern$300K to $500K
Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Member of Technical Staff, Forward-Deployed Engineering (this listing) | $175K - $350K |
| Member of Technical Staff | $175K - $350K |
| Member of Technical Staff, Frontend | $175K - $350K |
| Member of Technical Staff, Research | $275K - $500K |
| Research Intern | $300K - $500K |
Observed changes
- First observed on the employer's board
- Began meeting the published-salary criteria
- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-06-26
Where this pay comes from
Location as the employer wrote it: New York City
USD 175,000 – 350,000 · 1 YEAR · Salary
- Method
- Structured pay field published by the employer
- Checked
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- The pay is an annual base salary in US dollars with a minimum of at least $100,000.
- The role was publicly listed on the employer's job board when last checked.
We do not verify what the employer will actually offer, whether the employer is still recruiting for the role, or anything beyond what the employer published. Full methodology.
