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title: 'Forward Deployed Data Engineer at Vori'
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last_seen: '2026-09-07'
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# Forward Deployed Data Engineer at Vori

- **Company:** Vori
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-02-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/vori/a544737e-bc24-4f8a-b491-cbfd22a40ed8

## Job description

## JOB DESCRIPTION

At Vori, Forward Deployed Data Engineers bridge the gap between customer systems and our modern grocery platform. You’ll work closely with onboarding managers to configure Vori for each retailer’s unique needs—reducing out-of-stocks, cutting shrink, and driving efficiency.

As one of the Founding Forward Deployed Data Engineers, you won’t just be implementing processes—you’ll be defining them from the ground up. You’ll create the playbooks, data pipelines, and integration systems that allow Vori to scale from our first customers to thousands of stores.

This role is hands-on with data. You’ll wrangle item files and invoices from POS systems, back-office tools, and ERPs—in formats ranging from CSV and EDI to PDFs and even scanned paper—and connect them seamlessly into Vori. Fluency with SQL and data manipulation is essential.

We’re looking for motivated, detail-oriented engineers who thrive at the intersection of people, data, and infrastructure. If you love solving messy integration problems, collaborating with customers, and making technology work in the real world, you’ll feel right at home at Vori.

## RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Understand the VoriOS system end to end and interdependencies between the system and its integration components
- Understanding Customer’s needs to define and configure system specifications
- Configure and maintain data mappings and reconciliation as an integral part of our operations team
- Ability to thrive in a cross-functional environment and work closely with Operations, Product, Engineering teams on how to improve workflows and systems end to end

## QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years in FD/Solutions Engineering, or a similar customer-facing technical role, ideally in B2B SaaS or fintech
- Hybrid skillset — strong backend/data engineering fundamentals + ability to interact directly with customer IT teams.
- Domain awareness — familiarity with unstructured data, ETL processes and ML/OCR pipelines.
- Customer empathy — comfort in troubleshooting messy, high-pressure customer environments.
- Bias for autonomy — capable of managing extraction, ingestion, and pipeline tuning with minimal guidance.
- SQL, Regex and scripting proficiency and willingness to learn new technologies.

## GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES

- Get excited to learn more about complex data systems on the tech side as well as business challenges the grocery industry faces everyday
- Confront and conquer unique, real-world problems that enhance your problem-solving abilities and challenge you to perform well with high velocity

## EXPECTATIONS

- You will be stretched and challenged with a large scope of work, and fast paced deadlines. This role is for folks that want to make a dent in a $1T industry — which requires consistent force of will and large doses of daily creativity
- Vori is NOT a simple 9-5 job 💯. We are building a Seal Team 6 of individuals who work hard, long, and smart to deliver exceptional results on limited resources. As a startup we constantly have to prove our right to exist. But if we win, we have the chance to transform the most fundamental industry on earth — food. Are you in?

## WHY VORI

- Mission-driven team building tech that helps local businesses thrive
- Backed by top investors and advisors from Stripe, Uber, Palantir, and Toast
- Real revenue, real growth, and a massive market opportunity
- A chance to shape not just marketing—but the company's future

## About Vori

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Vori provides a modern, AI-powered operating system (POS, inventory, ordering, pricing, loyalty) for independent and regional grocery stores.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series unknown, $32.3M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2019 (initial iOS app built in 12 days)
- **Founders**: Brandon Hill, Tre Kirkman, Robert Pinkerton

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Grocery technology / retail operations software
- **Target customers**: Independent and regional grocery stores (small and mid-sized supermarkets)
- **Mission or purpose**: "Changing the way food moves, from silo to shelf" – democratizing food supply access, reducing food waste, and empowering local entrepreneurs

## Products & Services
- **VoriOS**: The core operating system that combines point-of-sale, inventory management, ordering, pricing, shopper engagement, and reporting into one platform.
- **Point of Sale (POS)**: Modern lane checkout supporting scales, type-2 UPCs, split tenders, EBT, and eWIC.
- **Inventory Management**: Real-time tracking of counts, shrink, and movement; automated reordering based on stock levels.
- **Pricing Automation**: AI-driven margin protection that catches cost changes and adjusts prices automatically before checkout.
- **Shopper Engagement / Loyalty**: Enroll shoppers at checkout, send targeted SMS offers, and track basket lift and order counts.
- **Vori AI Agents**: Autonomous agents (Inventory Agent, Pricing Agent, Marketing Agent) that monitor operations and take actions based on predefined rules.
- **Reporting & Insights**: Unified dashboard for sales, margin, inventory, and loyalty performance.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $4.0M (estimated); Total funding of $32.3M across 4 rounds
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (Winter 2020 batch, primary partner Aaron Epstein); also referenced as backed by "Stanford engineers from SpaceX, Google, and Facebook" (implied institutional and angel investors)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of 49 employees (+119.4% YoY); LinkedIn followers 6,408 (+67.4% yearly); claims "10k+ hours saved per week" for grocery operators; customer metrics include +22% net sales increase, +10% basket lift among loyalty members, and +20 order count lift.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Single unified platform**: Replaces fragmented legacy POS, inventory, and loyalty systems with one integrated OS designed specifically for grocery workflows.
- **AI agents that automate decisions**: Pricing, inventory, and marketing agents act automatically based on rules, reducing manual labor and protecting margins.
- **Deep grocery domain expertise**: Founded by operators and former store directors; built with input from actual grocers (e.g., first order at Delucchi's Market, first scan at Market at Edgewood).
- **Focus on independent/regional grocers**: Levels the playing field against large retail chains by providing enterprise-grade technology at accessible cost.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scaling AI agent capabilities (listing "Full Stack Product Engineer - Agentic AI"); expanding sales territory (VP of Sales for East Coast, Territory Account Executive for New York); continuing to reduce food waste and combat food deserts through supply chain data.
- **Direction for growth**: Growing customer base beyond initial independent grocers, deepening integrations with suppliers, and enhancing automation to save operational hours.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Values include "Think 100x", "Always level up", "Design toward the obvious". Team described as "radically diverse foodies" from companies like SpaceX, Facebook, Whole Foods, Slack, and Airbnb. Bias toward velocity and execution.
- **Remote/hybrid/office**: Team spread across Bay Area (HQ), New York City, and Puerto Rico. Specific remote/hybrid policy not stated, but roles appear location-flexible.
- **Notable perks**: Opportunity to work on a mission-driven product that directly impacts local food economies; modern tech stack (React, TypeScript, AI agents); early-stage growth trajectory with significant responsibility.
- **Engineering culture**: "Build the OS for Grocery" – engineers work on real-time data systems, AI, and POS reliability; roles include Forward Deployed Data Engineer and Full Stack Product Engineer.

## Sources
1. [vori.com](https://www.vori.com/)
2. [vori.com/about](https://www.vori.com/about)
3. [vori.com/careers](https://www.vori.com/careers)
4. [linkedin.com/company/vori](https://www.linkedin.com/company/vori)
5. [ycombinator.com/companies/vori](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/vori)
6. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/vori](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/vori)

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