Founding Forward Deployed Engineer, Glean
$160-270k
+ Equity
3-4 days a week in office
AI-based search engine connecting enterprise data
Be an early applicant
AI-based search engine connecting enterprise data
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$160-270k
+ Equity
3-4 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To expand human potential to do extraordinary work.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years in technical, client-facing roles such as Forward Deployed Engineer, Software Engineer or Solutions Architect. Former technical founders are strongly encouraged to apply
- Production LLM experience including prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks, and deployment at scale
- Strong full-stack programming skills and experience building custom integrations in hybrid or SaaS environments, with a track record of shipping production software
- Cloud platform experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure
- Enterprise systems knowledge including networking, security frameworks, and common business application stacks
- High agency and comfort with ambiguity—you spot problems early and solve them independently
- Strong communication skills with both technical teams and business stakeholders
- Founder mentality: scrappy, resourceful, and outcome-driven
Desirable
- Prior experience in customer‑facing, consultative roles (solutions, support, product management) and comfort presenting to senior leaders
- Exposure to evaluating AI outcomes (e.g., defining success criteria, using sample tasks, reviewing results) and iterating for quality, latency, and cost
- Ability to analyze usage signals and customer feedback to inform roadmap and drive adoption
What the job involves
- If you’re excited to shape how the world works, you’ll help build systems used daily across Microsoft Teams, Zoom, ServiceNow, Zendesk, GitHub, and many more - deeply embedded where people get things done
- You’ll ship agentic capabilities on an open, extensible stack, with the craft and care required for enterprise trust, as we bring Work AI to every employee, in every company
- As a member of our Forward Deployed Engineering Team, you will partner directly with our customers to architect transformational AI solutions that address their most critical business challenges
- Collaborating with our Go-to-Market, Product, and Engineering teams, you'll bring together technical expertise, knowledge of enterprise AI systems, and client-facing abilities to design and launch production platforms that create measurable business value
- You will own the full engagement—from initial discovery and technical planning to solution architecture, development, and production launch
- You will operate at the cutting edge of enterprise AI implementations and be among our founding FDEs who establish our forward-deployed approach
- This is a significant opportunity: you'll shape how leading enterprises leverage AI to transform their operations while directly influencing Glean's product evolution through real-world deployment insights
- You'll build production AI applications using Glean's platform including custom agents, workflows, connectors, and integrations that solve real business problems
- Develop deep customer relationships and manage executive stakeholder engagement throughout the lifecycle of your engagements
- Guide customers through the end-to-end deployment of Glean in complex enterprise environments, ensuring smooth implementation and rapid time to value
- Stay current on LLM advancements and AI tools to bring the latest capabilities to customer deployments
- Shape the product roadmap by sharing field learnings about platform strengths and opportunities for development
- Build lasting partnerships with customers while identifying new ways to deploy AI throughout your engagements
Our take
Glean is an intuitive digital assistant which allows employees to search across all their apps and find the information and tools that they need more quickly.
With so many SaaS apps being used by modern day companies, overwhelm and inefficiency inevitably enter the equation. Glean’s search engine is proving popular for how it unifies and centralizes all these distributed tools and data.
It’s been quite a start to life at Glean, having emerged from stealth in 2021, it received a $1B valuation in early 2022, thus achieving unicorn status. Since then, the company has gone on to raise substantial funding and bring its valuation up to $7.2B in 2025. With this impressive growth, its secured some big name customers like Grammarly, databricks, and Rubrik.
That Glean was co-founded by a quartet with senior experience at Google, Microsoft, Uber, and Facebook stands the company in good stead. However, it’s the fact that its search engine is solving a new, but very real problem in the workplace that’s seen its popularity surge so quickly, which it’s likely to continue to do in the future. And its adaptability to include new AI capabilities to its platform, such as generative AI, has Glean well set to see further growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
44% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2025
$150m
SERIES F
Sep 2024
$260m
SERIES E
Total funding: $805m
Company HQ
Evergreen Park, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Arvind Jain
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former Engineer at Google and Microsoft. Arvind is also the co-founder of high growth startup Rubrik, which delivers data security and operational resilience for enterprises.
TR Vishwanath
(Co-Founder & CTO)Before co-founding Glean, TR was a Principal Software Engineer at Facebook after spending eight years at Microsoft as a Software Design Engineer, then Principal Development Lead.
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