Beacon Software
SaaS
ForwardDeployedEngineer
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“Forward Deployed Engineer at Beacon Software. Skills: Agentic software, Full-stack development, Customer engagement. Embed deeply with portcos. Understand operating model from inside”
What You'll Achieve.
Ship agentic software; Turn platforms into outcomes; Compress learnings into playbooks; Ship playbooks to every portco; 10x faster deployments
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting; Data-driven decision making
On-site presence required, Meaningful fraction on-site
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Full-stack TypeScript or Python, React on the frontend, SQL fluently, Comfortable in someone else’s codebase within a day, Shipped real software using foundation models, Read a P&L, Understand why a churn-save matters, Know that a 5-point improvement in support matters
Nice to Have
Prior FDE experience, PE exposure, Consulting exposure, M&A diligence exposure, Post-LOI integration cadence exposure, Comfort with Iceberg-based data platforms, Comfort with Snowflake, Comfort with Databricks, Comfort with event-driven systems, Built agentic systems in production, Operated agentic systems in production, Experience with evals, Experience with autonomy gating, Experience with outcome tracking
What You'll Do.
Embed deeply with portcos
Understand operating model from inside
Earn trust of operators
Identify workflows for agentic software
Land first agentic loop
Use core engineering platforms
Extend platforms when they fall short
Stay close to system after it ships
Hand off cleanly to portfolio ops
Bring patterns back to HQ
Codify what worked into playbooks
Ship playbooks to every portco
Carry GM relationship
Be technical face of Beacon
Set expectations with GM
Ensure GM sees system as leverage
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Embedded with portcos; Sit with GM; Sit with operators; Sit with customer success; Work with core engineering; Work with portfolio ops
Communication Scope
Writing; Wedge memo; GM update; Post-deployment retro; Playbook writing
Process & Methodology
Playbook development
Full Job Description
ABOUT BEACON SOFTWARE Beacon https://beaconsoftware.com is acquiring and operating a portfolio of vertical SaaS companies. Most private equity firms scale by adding people. We are building Beacon to scale by adding software. The thesis is simple: portfolio operations, value creation, and deal sourcing are bottlenecked by human attention, and an agentic operating system can lift that ceiling by an order of magnitude. We are building that system. It has two pieces. A sensing layer is a cross-portfolio data lake on open table formats with a feature store on top that makes the data agent-readable. An action layer runs workflows across three domains: how we run the portfolio, how we grow the portfolio, and how we acquire into it. Underneath both sits a feedback loop that captures every action and outcome with stable identifiers. Beacon has raised $550M+ from investors including General Catalyst, Lightspeed, D1 Capital, CPMG, and the family offices of the founders of Stripe, DoorDash, and Ramp. ABOUT THE ROLE Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) are the engineers who go where the work is. You will be embedded with one or two portfolio companies at a time — sitting with the GM, the operators, and the customer success lead — figuring out where the leverage is, and shipping agentic software directly into their operation. The platforms exist. You are the person who turns them into outcomes on a specific business. This is a Palantir-style FDE role applied to private equity operations. You will spend a meaningful fraction of your time on-site or in the portco’s tools, and the rest of your time back at Beacon HQ pulling the patterns you learned back into the platform. The best FDEs at Beacon will not just deliver for the portcos they are deployed at — they will compress what they learned into reusable playbooks that ship to every other portco in the same vertical. This is not a consulting role. We ship software, not slides. The deliverable is a running system. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Em
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