--- title: 'Forward Deployed Engineer at Edia' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/forward-deployed-engineer-edia-united-states-g8ytdq9kerse' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-24' --- # Forward Deployed Engineer at Edia - **Company:** Edia - **Location:** United States - **Compensation:** $150k–$200k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-08-24 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-24 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/edia/40ede92e-e0b7-4724-b691-71bacf1fc92c ## Job description ## About Edia Edia is the leading AI technology company in K-12 education, helping 1M+ students across the U.S. have an exceptional experience in school. ## About the Role We’re seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to make Edia work inside the complex technical and operational environments of large school districts. You’ll work directly with district IT teams, curriculum leaders, and operational staff to understand their systems and workflows, integrate their data, and customize Edia’s products to meet their needs. This role sits between Customer Success Engineering and product engineering. You won’t simply collect requirements and hand them to another team. You’ll inspect unfamiliar systems, design solutions, implement integrations and product extensions, debug failures, and operate what you ship. You’ll also recognize when a district-specific request reveals a reusable capability that belongs in the core platform. ## What You’ll Do Embed with districts - Work directly with district IT, data, curriculum, and operations teams to understand their systems, constraints, and existing workflows. - Turn loosely defined customer needs into concrete technical designs, implementation plans, and production software. - Own the technical relationship from initial discovery through integration, customization, launch, and stabilization. Build integrations and custom solutions - Build and operate integrations with PowerSchool, Infinite Campus, Synergy, Clever, ClassLink, and other district systems. - Implement REST API integrations, SFTP pipelines, SSO and rostering flows, data transformations, validation systems, and backfills. - Extend Edia’s products with district-specific workflows, internal tools, reports, interfaces, and automations. - Ship full-stack functionality when a successful deployment requires changes across backend services, data models, and user interfaces. - Safely migrate and reconcile sensitive, inconsistent, and incomplete district data. Own production outcomes - Debug schema mismatches, authentication problems, API limitations, data-quality failures, and unexpected customer environments. - Build appropriate testing, observability, reconciliation, retry, and recovery mechanisms for every integration. - Remain accountable through go-live rather than treating code completion as the finish line. - Balance immediate customer needs with maintainability, security, and the long-term health of the platform. Improve the core platform - Identify repeated customer problems and turn one-off solutions into reusable platform capabilities. - Build integration frameworks, configuration systems, implementation tooling, and operational playbooks that let Edia support districts faster. - Partner closely with Product and Engineering to influence roadmap based on what you learn in the field. - Exercise judgment about when to customize, when to generalize, and when to push back on a fragile approach. ## What We’re Looking For Essential qualifications - A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related rigorous technical field. - 4+ years of hands-on software engineering experience. - Strong programming fundamentals and the ability to become productive quickly in an unfamiliar codebase. - Experience building production backend services and data integrations using REST APIs, data pipelines, and asynchronous workflows. - Strong debugging skills across application code, data, infrastructure, and third-party systems. - Experience with cloud infrastructure. - Ability to design a system, implement it, and remain accountable for its behavior in production. - Excellent communication with both engineers and nontechnical stakeholders. - Comfort operating in ambiguous customer environments where the real problem must be discovered rather than simply specified. What sets you apart - You enjoy working directly with users and domain experts. - You naturally investigate the surrounding workflow instead of implementing the first requested feature literally. - You can move between a district meeting, an unfamiliar API, a production incident, and a code review without losing the thread. - You have strong judgment about which customer requests should become reusable product capabilities. - You care deeply about correctness, maintainability, and the operational details that determine whether a system actually works. - You seek out important problems and drive them to completion without waiting for a fully formed specification. Especially valuable experience - Node.js and TypeScript. - AWS. - React or other full-stack product development. - SIS, LMS, rostering, SSO, education-data, or public-sector integrations. - Forward-deployed engineering, technical consulting, implementation engineering, or early-stage startup work. Work Authorization: We are currently unable to sponsor or transfer work authorization for all jobs. If things change in the future, we'll be sure to update this section. We appreciate your interest in Edia. Feel free to follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/edia-app/) to learn more about what we're doing to improve education outcomes in the US. ## About Edia ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Edia is an AI platform for K-12 school districts that improves student outcomes through personalized math tutoring, attendance interventions, and unified data analytics. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2020 - **Founders**: Joe Philleo (Co-founder, CEO), Iain Proctor (CTO and Co-founder) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Education technology (EdTech) - **Target customers**: B2B – K-12 school districts (large urban districts like NYC, San Francisco, Denver, Wichita, Cincinnati, Fulton County, as well as remote rural schools) - **Mission**: “Every child has an exceptional experience at school.” [edia.app/company](https://edia.app/company) ## Products & Services - **Math**: AI‑powered personalized tutoring and adaptive interventions that improve math scores by 8-23% on state exams. [edia.app](https://edia.app/) - **Attendance**: Automated AI‑driven family outreach and interventions to reduce chronic absenteeism by 15-30% in the first year. [edia.app](https://edia.app/) - **MTSS Data**: Unified data platform that connects SIS, LMS, behavior, and wellness systems to flag struggling students weeks earlier. [edia.app](https://edia.app/) - **District Intelligence**: AI‑powered analytics and dashboards that turn school data into actionable interventions. [edia.app](https://edia.app/) ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric – Total Funding**: $13.4M (Seed $4M in June 2022; Series A $9.4M in April 2024 led by Felicis) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/edia-app) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Felicis (lead Series A), plus 5 other investors; partners include NYC DOE, San Francisco Unified, Denver Public Schools, Wichita, Cincinnati, Fulton County. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/edia-app) - **Growth Signals**: - Trusted by 200+ school districts serving over 500,000 students. [edia.app](https://edia.app/) - 24.3% headcount growth (YoY) – now 55 employees. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/edia-app) - Recent partnership news: San Francisco, Cincinnati, Wichita, Denver (August 2025). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/edia-app) - Active job postings for Senior Backend Engineer, Product Manager, and Account Executives (West/East). [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/edia) ## Competitive Advantages - **Full‑suite AI platform** that covers math, attendance, and MTSS – replacing point solutions and siloed tools. - **Proven outcomes** with specific, documented improvements in math scores and attendance. - **Unified data approach** pulls from all student systems to provide early‑warning signals, a significant moat for district adoption. - **Deep focus on K‑12** – tailors AI for the unique workflows of teachers, counselors, and administrators. - **Founded by top engineers from Silicon Valley**, combining EdTech domain expertise with strong technical talent. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/edia-app) ## Strategic Focus - **Expand district partnerships** – moving from 200+ districts deeper into large urban and rural markets. - **Continue to reduce chronic absenteeism** with AI‑powered family outreach (reported 30% reduction). - **Deepen the MTSS data layer** to become the central intelligence platform for K‑12 outcomes. - **Scale the team** across engineering, product, and sales (current openings: Senior Backend Engineer, Product Manager, Account Executives). [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/edia) ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Rated 5.0/5.0 on employer review sites, with high marks for Work‑Life (4.5), Compensation (4.5), Culture (5.0), and Career Growth (4.5). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/edia-app) - **Work location**: Hybrid – GTM teams in the field; marketing, corporate, and design teams hybrid out of San Francisco HQ; engineering is remote‑flexible. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/edia) - **Perks**: - Company equity for all employees. - Healthcare benefits (medical, dental, vision). - Generous parental leave and family/childcare benefits. - 401(k) with company match, disability and life insurance. - Unlimited PTO, paid holidays, and paid sick days. - Open door policy and accessibility. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/edia) - **Tech stack**: AWS, Node.js, React, JavaScript – a modern engineering environment. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/edia) - **Team size**: 55 employees (~7 in Product + Tech) with a strong growth trajectory. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/edia-app) ## Sources 1. [edia.app](https://edia.app/) 2. [edia.app/company](https://edia.app/company) 3. [LinkedIn – Edia](https://www.linkedin.com/company/edia-app) 4. 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