Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

Join Glean as a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer, where you'll have the autonomy and accountability of a founder. Your primary responsibility will be to discover and build Glean's next generation of product surfaces, working directly with the C-suite of influential companies and Glean's engineering and product teams. You'll identify unsolved business problems, create new products to address them, and shape the future of Glean. This role requires a strong technical background, experience in production AI, and a passion for building innovative solutions.

• Identifying and building Glean's next generation of product surfaces, working closely with Forward Deployed PMs and C-suite executives.
• Leading deep opportunity discovery by understanding the business, identifying unsolved value, and forming strong hypotheses.
• Acting as a technical partner to the C-suite, earning trust at the highest levels of customer organizations, and explaining the technical aspects of the product.

• Customer instinct: You build trust quickly at every level of an organization, communicate with clarity, and know how to tailor your depth to the room
• Production AI experience: You've shipped AI-powered solutions in the real world - prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks, deployment at scale. Not just prototypes
• Curiosity and scrappiness: You're driven to understand problems deeply before solving them, and resourceful enough to find a path forward when none is obvious
• Business acumen: You can walk into a customer, identify where the real problems are, and connect that diagnosis to a product hypothesis - without being handed a brief
• Builder's judgment: You know what's actually buildable, how long it will take, and when to simplify scope to get something real into production faster. You spot problems early and solve them independently
• Experience: 4+ years in technical roles with a track record of shipping production software. Former technical founders are strongly encouraged to apply
• Willingness to travel: This role requires 25–50% travel
• 0-to-1 build track record: You've built production software from scratch in ambiguous environments. You can point to something that didn't exist before you showed up and is now used by real people at scale
• You think like a founder. When you walk into a customer, you're curious about the business, digging into what's broken, and figuring out what to build that doesn't yet exist. You're scrappy and resourceful, you move fast enough to learn, and you're as comfortable in a strategic discussion with a CEO as you are deep in a codebase. You've shipped actual products that real people use, that drove real outcomes - and you want to do it at a higher level of ambition
• Full-stack technical depth: Strong programming skills across the stack with a deep understanding of and experience with how enterprise systems actually work
• Experience as a founder, at a top-tier technology company, or in a forward deployed engineering role
• Deep familiarity with LLMs, retrieval systems, and evaluation frameworks
• A technical degree in CS, engineering, math, or a related field
• Experience driving technology adoption inside large enterprises