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title: 'Forward Deployed Engineer at Bobyard'
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# Forward Deployed Engineer at Bobyard

- **Company:** Bobyard
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $130k–$165k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-05-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/bobyard/39196a79-10f7-4c8e-9b40-d77134734e87

## Job description

Position Overview

Forward Deployed Engineers at Bobyard work directly with our most strategic customers — general contractors — to solve critical problems end-to-end. You’ll embed with customer teams, understand their workflows, and ship solutions directly in their environment. From prototype to production in days. The patterns you establish become core product features. This role combines software engineering, product thinking, and customer partnership. High autonomy, high impact.

## What You’ll Do

- Embed & ship: Work directly in customer instances. Identify high-leverage problems. Build full-stack: React, Django, PostgreSQL. Ship in weeks, not quarters.
- Own outcomes: Define ambiguous problems and deliver scalable solutions. Design systems that handle 10x usage.
- Bridge product ↔ customer: Your field work informs roadmap. Convert one-off solutions into platform capabilities.
- Full lifecycle: Discovery, system design, data modeling, infra, frontend, deployment, monitoring. You build it, run it, and scale it.
- Ensure reliability: AWS / GCP. Deploy, monitor, debug. Ensure reliability.
- Validate and scale: Prototype with real users. Measure impact. Invest in what works.

You Are

- High-ownership: Comfortable with ambiguity. Create clarity and deliver.
- Product-minded: Understand why we build. Strong product judgment. Partner effectively with design.
- Technically strong: System design, performance, architecture. Experience scaling systems or learn quickly.
- Full-stack: Frontend through infra. No handoffs. Accountable for outcomes.
- Fast learner: Adopt new tools and ship.
- Startup-focused: Prefer impact and speed over process. Comfortable with customer-facing work.
- Reliable under pressure: Manage parallel priorities. Sequence work and deliver.

A note on pace We ship weekly, and priorities move as we learn from customers. Requirements are often incomplete when work starts, and you'll be expected to shape them. If that pace excites you, you'll fit in well.

## Benefits

- Competitive salary plus equity options
- Health, dental, and vision coverage
- Catered lunch in the office
- $70 a month toward your commute
- Team happy hours and events
- Build a category-defining company with a small, driven team

Comp Philosophy Cash for stability. Bonus for performance. Equity for ownership. Your package reflects your role, your experience, and what you deliver.

## About Bobyard

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Bobyard provides an AI-powered platform that automates construction takeoffs and cost estimates for trades like landscaping, electrical, and HVAC, helping contractors bid faster and more accurately.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Michael Ding

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Construction Technology (ConTech), AI-powered Software
- **Target customers**: B2B; General contractors, subcontractors, and specialty trade businesses in landscaping, electrical, mechanical, flooring, and other construction sectors.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To revolutionize the construction industry by automating the takeoff and estimation process, making it 10x faster and eliminating costly mistakes.

## Products & Services
- **Bobyard Platform (AI-Powered Takeoffs & Estimates)**: A SaaS platform that uses Computer Vision (CV) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) models to automate the quantification and measurement of construction plans. Features include:
    - **Auto Count**: Instantly detects and counts symbols for planting, irrigation, and electrical work.
    - **Auto Area Measurement**: Automatically measures materials like pavers and concrete.
    - **Auto Length Measurement**: Measures beds, edges, and hardscape in seconds.
    - **Database & Vendor Quotes**: Tracks historical costs, vendor quotes, and assemblies.
    - **Custom Templates**: Adaptable formulas for specific business workflows.
    - **Flexible Exports**: Generates clean, professional estimates.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding raised of **$38.6M** across two rounds.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: 8VC (Lead investor in Series A), Pear VC, Primary Venture Partners. Partners with the "Disruptors" to empower landscape leaders.
- **Growth Signals**:
    - **Massive Headcount Growth**: 37 employees as of mid-2026, representing a **+562.5% year-over-year increase** [linkedin.com]. Monthly headcount growth is **+23.3%** [linkedin.com].
    - **Active Hiring**: 26 active job postings, with a **+2500% year-over-year increase** in job postings [linkedin.com].
    - **Product Expansion**: Launched "Bobyard 2.0" in April 2026 and a new "Electrical Takeoff Product" in June 2026, signaling expansion across multiple trades [tracxn.com].
    - **Customer Results**: Customers report **65% faster takeoffs**, a **20% revenue increase**, and **5x bid volume** [bobyard.com].

## Competitive Advantages
- **Focus on "Trades"**: Unlike general construction software, Bobyard is specifically tailored for the needs of landscapers, electricians, and mechanical contractors, providing specialized features like auto-counting of irrigation symbols.
- **AI-Native**: Built from the ground up with Computer Vision and NLP, offering a level of automation (e.g., instant symbol recognition) that legacy takeoff software cannot match.
- **Rapid Traction in a Legacy Industry**: The construction industry is notoriously slow to adopt tech. Bobyard's strong customer testimonials and 562% headcount growth indicate strong product-market fit in a massive, underserved $12T industry [bobyard.com].

## Strategic Focus
- **Multi-Trade Expansion**: Rapidly rolling out new products for different trades (electrical, mechanical, flooring) to capture more of the construction estimation market.
- **Scaling the Platform**: Moving from a single-use tool to a consolidated "AI Workbench" (Bobyard 2.0) that serves as the central hub for estimation for all types of contractors.
- **Aggressive Hiring**: With 26 open roles and a focus on Sales, Engineering, and Customer Success, the company is clearly investing heavily in go-to-market and product development.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: The company emphasizes "Execution over everything" and "Immediate, outsized impact," promising that your work will shape mission-critical workflows for a $12T industry [bobyard.com].
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Based in San Francisco (HQ) and Menlo Park, California. The careers page states, "We believe in the power of in-person collaboration," suggesting a strong preference for in-office or hybrid work in the Bay Area [bobyard.com].
- **Rewards for Excellence**: Bonuses are tied directly to exceptional performance across all roles, not just sales. High performance is "measured, recognized, and rewarded" [bobyard.com].
- **Perks & Benefits**: Competitive salary, equity options, 401(k), health/dental/vision insurance, free lunch (and dinner for overtime), and the chance to help build a "massive company" [bobyard.com].
- **Growth Trajectory**: For job seekers, a company growing headcount by 562% YoY offers significant opportunities for career advancement and ownership.

## Sources
1. [bobyard.com](https://www.bobyard.com/)
2. [bobyard.com/careers](https://www.bobyard.com/careers/)
3. [linkedin.com/company/bobyard](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bobyard)
4. [builtin.com/company/bobyard](https://builtin.com/company/bobyard)
5. [tracxn.com/d/companies/bobyard](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/bobyard/__IDEttZmVgz6sEYZ1CoNtgfRsxhMB0sxGHiBNtHDBPLE)

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