Forward Deployed Engineer

Forward Deployed Engineer LocationNew York CityEmployment TypeFull timeLocation TypeOn-siteDepartmentEPDCompensation$200K – $300K • Offers EquityAbout SequenceOur mission is to own, transform, and operate the companies that will define the American service economy.AI will reshape every industry. But its deepest impact won't come from better models - it will come from transforming how real businesses serve real customers. Faster decisions. Personal service at scale. Better outcomes for the people who depend on these institutions every day. We believe this is the defining opportunity of our generation.The traditional playbook can't capture it. SaaS companies expect every business to conform to their product. Consultants scope to an engagement and leave. Neither has the access, context, or incentive to reach the root of how a business actually operates. That requires ownership.Sequence was built to close that gap. We are a permanent holding company - a home for great businesses and the exceptional people who run them. We take meaningful stakes, embed our technology and engineering team, and work alongside management to rewire operations from the inside. Not as a vendor. Not on a timeline. As owners.We've raised $75M - our seed round led by Conviction and 8VC, and our Series A led by Lux Capital - joined by Definition Capital, Chris Ré (Factory), and other leading institutional partners.About the RoleForward Deployed Engineers are the tip of the spear at Sequence. You'll walk into an operating company and within weeks, you'll understand how the business works better than most people who've been there for years. Then you'll rebuild it.Your job is to translate human knowledge work into AI compute. The operator who spends three hours reviewing documents before making a decision. The sales team that maintains a pipeline in their heads because the tools don't work in the field. The compliance team that manually checks every transaction against a spreadsheet of rules. You'll find these workflows, build AI-powered systems that transform them, and ship production software that people use daily — not demos, not pilots, real systems that run real businesses.Every transformation you do feeds back into Sequence's core AI platform — so that services businesses start to feel like product businesses. The companies we acquire run on manual, human-intensive processes. By building reusable systems that compound across the portfolio, you make each subsequent transformation faster than the last.As Sequence grows, the best FDEs will define and lead entire verticals, working closely with operators and investors to shape how whole industries run on Sequence's platform.What You'll Work OnEnd-to-end AI transformations inside operating companies: discovery, scoping, building, shipping, and iterating until the business impact is measurable and undeniableProduction agentic systems — tool-calling workflows, LLM-powered document processing, intelligent routing, and automated decision support — built for reliability in regulated, high-stakes environmentsEnterprise integrations with legacy systems, CRMs, compliance platforms, and operational software that was never designed for automation — including the auth, permissions, and data constraints that come with itReusable platform primitives that make the next transformation faster — data ingestion patterns, workflow orchestration, agent harnesses, and context layers that compound across the portfolioDirect collaboration with management teams, front-line operators, and business leadership to understand their world and earn their trustRequirementsCustomer obsession. Has worked directly with users, changed direction based on what they learned, and genuinely cares about solving real problems for real people. This is the hardest quality to teach and the one we weight most heavily.Demonstrated track record of impressive accomplishments, whether academic, professional, or entrepreneurialCan operate in ambiguity....