Forward Deployed Engineer, Clarasight
Clarasight
+ Equity
Employee carbon reduction platform
Open for applications
Employee carbon reduction platform
1-20 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
1-20 employees
Company mission
To help organizations accelerate sustainability and business success by closing the gap between intention and action.
Role
Who you are
- You have 5–8+ years in software engineering, data engineering, or technical consulting, with a track record of delivering in ambiguous, high-ownership environments
- You contribute to production codebases without hesitation, and you've spent meaningful time wrangling messy enterprise data. You communicate clearly across audiences, move fast, and don't need your name on things - you need them to work
- Experience with fintech or enterprise financial systems is a plus. Demonstrated outcomes applying AI/ML to real operational data is a strong signal
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer who thrives at the intersection of deep technical craft and high-stakes customer engagement
- This isn't a solutions engineering role where you demo software and hand off tickets
- You'll be embedded in complex enterprise environments, building real things during live sales cycles and turning what you learn into durable product capabilities
- You'll sit within Engineering but spend most of your time in pre-sales and strategic customer engagements, working closely with Sales and Customer Success
- Lead technical discovery with prospects and customers
- Architect and prototype integrations and AI workflows during live sales cycles
- Reconcile messy, low-quality enterprise datasets
- Contribute directly to Clarasight’s full stack production codebase
- Turn customer-specific solutions into scalable product capabilities
- Customer Engineering owns the technical relationship from first discovery call through contract close. Collaborate with the data science team to translate ambiguous, high-pressure business problems into working prototypes and clear technical narratives that build trust and accelerate deals
- Data & Systems Design and build pipelines across fragmented travel, financial, and expense systems. Get hands-on with messy, low-quality enterprise data: reconciling, validating, and shaping it into something reliable. Build frameworks that last, not workarounds that don't
- AI Application Apply AI where it genuinely creates advantage: enrichment, anomaly detection, forecasting, automation. Have strong opinions about where it helps and where it's noise. Turn experiments into repeatable, scalable workflows
- Productization Feed structured learnings directly into Product. The best customer-specific solutions you build shouldn't stay custom. Your job is to make them part of the platform
Our take
Corporations are steadily making greater efforts to address their carbon footprint, and investment into sustainability focused companies is reaching new heights. Indeed, investment into ESG funds doubled from 2021 to 2022, while global sustainable investment is up around 70% since 2014.
Clarasight (previously Climate Club) has entered the space with a platform that engages employees in carbon emissions reduction, or as the startup puts its, “embeds sustainability into the employee experience”, by helping track their emissions through business travel and remote work.
It’s a clever idea, and the company’s timing is excellent, especially considering that many polls now show that around 70% of employees want to work for sustainable companies, while it’s a deal breaker for around 25%.
Clarasight's emergence from stealth in 2022 was no quiet event either. CEO Adam Braun is a best-selling author and celebrated non-profit leader, while the company’s customer base already includes Meta, Lyft, and Bain & Company made sure of this. With three rounds of seed funding already behind it, Climate Club will continue to onboard big-name customers.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2026
$11.5m
SERIES A
Sep 2023
$9.7m
SEED
Total funding: $27.7m
Company benefits
- Fully remote: We are a remote-first team with an inclusive culture that enables freedom and flexibility
- Unlimited PTO with mandatory minimums: We believe rest, rejuvenation and time away from work is critical. Our PTO policy fully reflects this
- Education and Sustainability budgets: Each teammate receives an annual budget to invest in learnings and personal sustainability
- Industry leading insurance plans: We have robust medical, dental and vision plans and cover 100% of individual premiums
- Equity incentive plan: Every full-time employee receives stock options in the company. We are all owners in the business
- 401k: We offer 401k plans to every full-time employee, and enable sustainable investments funds as well
Company HQ
New York, NY
Leadership
Adam Braun
(Co-Founder & CEO)Author of NY Times bestseller “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change” -the book based on their work as Founder & CEO of education non-profit Pencils of Promise. Also co-founded and was CEO of MissionU, a debt-free college alternative.
Philip Charm
(Co-Founder)Venture Partner with NextGen & Advisor. Serves in advisory roles at HyperComply, QuotaPath, and Check. Former Head of Business Development, Alliances & International for Checkr, Inc., VP of Business Development & Alliances at Gainsight, and Head of Strategy & Business Development in Emerging Technologies for Deloitte.
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