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

- **Company:** Eagle
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/eagle/ddd07f46-a42a-4709-8e19-091d5145a9e7

## Job description

## About Eagle

We’re on a mission to radically transform the way we design and construct our built environment. Backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Eagle transforms civil, structural, and MEP engineering firms with applied AI. We’re an AI laboratory dedicated to providing engineers with the tools they need to solve the world’s hardest infrastructure, energy, and climate problems. By arming designers with frontier technology, our ambition is to build the most valuable, talent-dense engineering firm in the United States.

The opportunity Our core thesis: 85% of what engineers do today is theoretically automatable, yet less than 5% has actually been touched by AI. That gap is the largest of any profession. Our plan is to close it by building purpose-built tools for their staff, and compounding that proprietary intelligence across customers. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you're the tip of the spear. You'll embed inside the firms we work with—sitting beside structural, civil, and MEP engineers who've often never worked with a software company—find the workflows where technology creates the most leverage, and ship tools that work in weeks, not quarters. You own the outcome, not a ticket. And after winning at the edge, you'll work with the rest of the team to compound what you learned into universal product leverage for Eagle. You get a front-row seat to building a company from zero on a problem domain that's barely been touched by AI.

## What you'll do

- Embed on-site with engineers at the firms we work with—watch how they work, earn their trust, and find the highest-leverage problems to solve
- Own outcomes end-to-end: discovery, build, deployment, debugging in prod, and iterating live with the people using it
- Ship fast and bespoke when the deployment demands it—then feed every lesson back into a platform that compounds across firms
- Do whatever the deployment needs: wire up integrations to legacy Windows-native AEC software, write the scraper, or stand up an off-the-shelf tool to test an idea before you build the real thing
- Collaborate directly with the CTO on technical direction, engineering culture, and what we build next

## What we look for

- Has a deep curiosity for how things work—an organization, a workflow, a market
- Isn't afraid to expose their ignorance and is constantly asking why
- Has the poise and communication skills to earn trust with people who've never worked with a tech company before—on their turf, in their language
- Can sit with noisy, conflicting feedback from users and distill it into a clear opinion about what to build
- Low ego, high agency: no task is beneath you if it unblocks the deployment
- Is willing to get on a plane with us
- Has experience or interest in LLMs, agent frameworks, RAG, browser automation, or doc parsing

Technology

- Frontend: NextJS on Vercel, Tailwind CSS
- Backend: Kotlin for web services, Python for data
- Infra: Multitenant shared infra on AWS via Pulumi

## Compensation

- Competitive cash compensation ($150K–$300K depending on experience)
- Founding equity, scaled to scope
- Full healthcare benefits
- In-person office in NYC

## About Eagle

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Eagle is an AI-native platform and strategic partner that acquires and scales civil, structural, and MEP engineering firms by embedding proprietary AI tools into their workflows.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed-stage, backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, USA
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Mayank Mardia, Sohum Daftary, Thomas Shouler

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Engineering Services (AEC — Architecture, Engineering, Construction) / Applied AI
- **Target customers**: AEC firms (civil, structural, MEP engineering firms) — B2B, enterprise-focused partnership model
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Unleashing engineering for the built environment" — on a mission to flip the script by arming engineers with frontier technology instead of replacing them [eagleeng.com](https://www.eagleeng.com/)

## Products & Services
- **Eagle Platform (AI Operating System for AEC)**: A suite of proprietary AI tools built for engineering firms. Key modules include:
  - **Proposal Generation**: AI drafts 100-page proposals in hours from past work and firm standards.
  - **Opportunity Intelligence**: Combines public and private data to surface leads before RFPs drop.
  - **Relationship Mapping**: AI maps decision-makers, tracks job changes, and surfaces warm connections.
  - **Document Intelligence & Structured Knowledge Store**: Automates drafting, calculations, and documentation; integrates LLMs and multimodal models into production workflows.
- **Acquisition & Transformation Model**: Eagle acquires engineering firms and embeds its tech team to build custom tools alongside existing engineers — the firm’s brand, team, and culture stay the same.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private, seed-stage startup)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding amount not publicly disclosed; backed by **Lightspeed Venture Partners** (a global VC)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lightspeed Venture Partners (lead investor); Advisors include **Carl Bass** (former President & CEO of Autodesk) and **Finlay McLay** (former CEO of Consertus, former COO of Cumming)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Founded in 2025 with only 2 employees initially; LinkedIn shows 2 employees with +16.7% monthly growth [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/eagleengtech)
  - Website traffic growing +133.6% month-over-month (2,130 monthly visits, 100% US-based) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/eagleengtech)
  - Actively hiring founding technical staff (Applied AI Engineer, Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed Engineer) [careerbuilder.com](https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/member-of-technical-staff-new-york-ny--190b018e-4ac6-4b1e-a306-fcaf2b5bc747) [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/job/applied-ai-engineer/8601552)
  - Core thesis: 85% of what engineers do is theoretically automatable, yet less than 5% has been touched by AI — representing the largest automation gap of any profession [news.ycombinator.com](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477019)

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover in AI-native AEC consolidation**: Eagle is building the first AI-native engineering design firm by acquiring and transforming existing firms rather than competing with them — a unique roll-up strategy with embedded tech.
- **Deep domain expertise**: Founders combine structural/civil engineering backgrounds (Arup, Palantir) with AI/software development (Bloomberg, Ethic, Pivotal) and investment experience (Long Ridge, Arena).
- **Purpose-built AI for a legacy industry**: Unlike generic AI tools, Eagle builds custom spatial reasoning models, CAD file parsers, and regulatory compliance agents specifically for infrastructure engineering.
- **Advisory board strength**: Carl Bass (former Autodesk CEO) provides credibility and deep AEC industry connections.

## Strategic Focus
- **Acquire and transform**: Identify and acquire civil, structural, and MEP engineering firms, then embed Eagle's AI platform to multiply their output without changing their brand or culture.
- **Build the AI operating system for engineering**: Develop a platform that automates the 85% of grunt work (drafting, calculations, documentation, proposals) so engineers can focus on design.
- **Talent density**: Hire founding technical staff who can embed with engineering teams, understand workflows, and build production AI — aiming to become "the most valuable, talent-dense engineering firm in the United States" [careerbuilder.com](https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/member-of-technical-staff-new-york-ny--190b018e-4ac6-4b1e-a306-fcaf2b5bc747)
- **National infrastructure focus**: Targeting water systems, power utilities, bridges, and transportation to meet the country's generational energy, climate, and infrastructure needs.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven impact**: Work on the hardest infrastructure, energy, and climate problems in the U.S. with direct impact on the built environment.
- **Founding team access**: As a seed-stage company, early hires work directly with the founders (Mayank, Sohum, Thomas) on architecture decisions, firm acquisitions, and product strategy — building from zero.
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on curiosity, deep technical work, and "getting your hands dirty" — candidates who are "not above any task" (writing web scrapers, helping users, building Windows native plugins) are valued.
- **Compensation**: Competitive cash ($150K–$300K depending on experience) + founding equity scaled to scope [careerbuilder.com](https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/member-of-technical-staff-new-york-ny--190b018e-4ac6-4b1e-a306-fcaf2b5bc747)
- **Location**: In-person office in **New York City** (onsite/hybrid — job postings specify NYC) [careerbuilder.com](https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/member-of-technical-staff-new-york-ny--190b018e-4ac6-4b1e-a306-fcaf2b5bc747)
- **Benefits**: Full healthcare benefits included [careerbuilder.com](https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/member-of-technical-staff-new-york-ny--190b018e-4ac6-4b1e-a306-fcaf2b5bc747)
- **Learning opportunity**: Deep exposure to AEC domain, LLMs, agent frameworks, RAG, computer vision, CAD/spatial data — a rare intersection of AI and civil engineering.

## Sources
1. [eagleeng.com](https://www.eagleeng.com/)
2. [linkedin.com/company/eagleengtech](https://www.linkedin.com/company/eagleengtech)
3. [builtin.com - Applied AI Engineer job posting](https://builtin.com/job/applied-ai-engineer/8601552)
4. [careerbuilder.com - Member of Technical Staff job posting](https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/member-of-technical-staff-new-york-ny--190b018e-4ac6-4b1e-a306-fcaf2b5bc747)
5. [news.ycombinator.com - Eagle hiring post](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477019)

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