Forward-Deloyed Engineer

What You'll Do

• Embed with customers. Work closely with comms and public affairs teams to understand their workflows and pain points. Design and deliver solutions that feel tailor-made but scale across accounts.
• Build & deploy. Own integrations, data pipelines, and product customizations (Python, TypeScript, SQL/NoSQL). Move fast from concept to customer impact.
• Act as a bridge. Capture field intelligence and feed it back into product and engineering. Ensure what we build matches what high-value users need.
• Solve diverse technical challenges. From standing up real-time ingestion pipelines, to packaging AI/ML features for enterprise usability, to optimizing cloud deployments for scale.
• Drive adoption. Partner with Customer Success and Sales to ensure pilots turn into long-term contracts. Build credibility as the technical face of Clipbook.
• Shape Clipbook’s culture. As an early hire, set standards for how we work with customers, document solutions, and create repeatable playbooks.

What We’re Looking For

• 3–6+ years of technical experience in software engineering, data engineering, or solutions engineering. You don’t need to be a specialist in everything, but you’re confident owning end-to-end technical delivery.
• Strong customer orientation. You thrive in conversations with users, can ask the right questions, and translate needs into solutions.
• Bias for action. You’re pragmatic, comfortable making decisions with incomplete information, and default to shipping.
• Full-stack problem solver. Comfortable across Python/TypeScript/SQL/Node. Able to debug APIs, build quick integrations, and optimize data flows.
• Cloud & data fluency. Familiarity with AWS/GCP, containerization (Docker/K8s), CI/CD pipelines, and scaling data architectures, NextJS.
• Hybrid mindset. Excited to be in-office 3–4x/week with the team (NYC / SF / DC), because customer problems get solved faster face-to-face.

Bonus Points

• Experience in early-stage startups or as a technical founder is a huge plu
• Hands-on experience with LLMs (fine-tuning, RAG, RLHF)
• Experience building data pipelines, scrapers, or integrations (Playwright, Puppeteer, REST/GraphQL APIs)
• Previous startup or technical founder experience
• Background in consulting, customer-facing engineering, or forward-deployed or solutions engineering roles

Why Join Us as a Founding Engineer?

• Shape the future. You’ll be one of the very first engineers, owning core architecture and product decisions that will define Clipbook for years to come.
• Direct customer impact. Build and ship features used by 250+ customers, with instant feedback and visible impact.
• Technical challenges. Tackle the hardest problems in AI, semantic search, and large-scale data engineering-across all media modalities. E.g. how do you ingest a podcast that captures the feeling of it, and not just the transcript?
• High autonomy. No bureaucracy. You’ll have a blank canvas, massive influence, and a direct line to both customers and founders.
• Career-defining opportunity. This is a rare chance to build a category-defining product and company from the ground up, with outsized equity and leadership potential.