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Our mission is simple: place the best people in the right roles to drive long-term success for both clients and candidates.https://www.recruitingfromscratch.com/Title of the role: Founding Forward-Deployed EngineerLocation: New York City (On-site)Company Stage of Funding: Pre-Seed, Early Product-Market FitOffice Type: Onsite (with ~25% travel)Salary: $140,000 – $220,000 + EquityCompany DescriptionWe’re representing an early-stage, well-funded startup building infrastructure that enables AI systems to execute complex go-to-market (GTM) workflows across fragmented enterprise tools.Their platform allows AI agents to enrich, validate, deduplicate, and orchestrate workflows across dozens of GTM systems through a unified interface. The technology is already working in production, but enterprise deployments require deep technical customization and real-time problem solving.This is a highly technical, customer-facing engineering role at a company operating at the intersection of AI, data infrastructure, and enterprise SaaS. 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