ForwardDeployedEngineer

COMPETENCIES This isn't traditional consulting. And it's not back-office engineering. It's applied problem-solving in the real world, where your decisions directly impact revenue, retention, and business outcomes. We're looking for someone with: - 3–6 years of experience in consulting, data engineering, software engineering, or similar technical roles - Comfort working directly with customers and operating in ambiguous environments - Curiosity, ownership, and interest in building something new - Willingness to travel to customer sites - The ability to learn fast — this is the most important trait of all Technical foundations: - Strong foundation in SQL and data modeling - Experience with Python and/or other scripting languages - Experience integrating with APIs (REST / GraphQL) - Strong foundation in agentic systems and experience with AI tools to accelerate delivery - Familiarity with data pipelines, ETL/ELT, or workflow automation is a bonus but not required TRAJECTORY Forward Deployed Engineers are the heart of Planhat's AI Deployment Program. Joining Planhat as a Founding FDE at this moment is a unique professional accelerant: - Work with companies that are early adopters of AI and want to build the future with us - Gain experience in data engineering, systems design, AI deployment, workflow automation, and commercial operations — all at once - Become fluent in applied AI: not model research, but the much harder, much rarer skill of deploying AI that actually works - Develop technical intuition that is extremely rare in the market — the type that opens doors to engineering leadership, product architecture, or applied AI roles in any industry - Shape a brand-new discipline. FDE is to this decade what full-stack engineering was to the previous one As our Founding FDE, you'll embed with customers, understand how their business and systems actually work, and engineer the data pipelines, workflows, and automations that make AI useful and valuable. DEFINITION OF SUCCE