Glean
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
About this role
Join Glean's founding forward deployed team to discover and build next-generation AI product surfaces working directly with Fortune 500 C-suite executives. You'll operate with founder-level autonomy to identify unsolved business problems and create entirely new products that ship to Glean's global customer base.
What you'll do
- Conduct deep discovery at strategic customer sites to identify structural business problems and opportunities
- Design and ship 0-to-1 products that extend Glean's Work AI platform into new domains
- Partner with Forward Deployed PMs and customer executives to validate hypotheses and pressure-test solutions
- Lead technical implementation of novel product surfaces using Glean's horizontal AI platform
- Collaborate with Glean's core engineering and product teams to scale successful solutions across 1,000+ customers
- Own the full lifecycle from problem identification through shipping to production
What they're looking for
- Full-stack software engineering and system design
- Product discovery and opportunity identification
- Rapid prototyping and iterative development
- Enterprise software and SaaS knowledge
- AI/LLM platform understanding
- Customer engagement and stakeholder management
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Problem-solving and creative thinking
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Glean
Glean builds a Work AI platform that helps enterprises access and leverage their internal data intelligently. The company is hiring backend engineers, infrastructure specialists, fullstack engineers, and billing platform leads to develop scalable features, robust data infrastructure, consumption-based billing systems, and enterprise-grade storage and analytics capabilities.
- Website
- glean.com
Likely interview questions
- Tell us about a time you built a product from 0-to-1 with significant autonomy. How did you decide what to build, and how did you know when you'd solved the right problem?
- Describe your experience working directly with C-suite or executive stakeholders to understand their business problems. How do you translate their needs into technical requirements?