--- title: 'Forward Deployed Engineer at F2' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/forward-deployed-engineer-f2-new-york-rcnrrskz0wtn' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-10' --- # Forward Deployed Engineer at F2 - **Company:** F2 - **Location:** New York, NY - **Compensation:** $140k–$200k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-07-01 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/f2-ai/f23e7d5e-b149-4f3e-8180-73e312217170 ## Job description The Role: We're looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to be the bridge between F2's platform and the real-world complexity of our most important enterprise clients. You'll embed with strategic Private Credit customers, get deep on their data, workflows, and infrastructure, and build custom solutions that makes F2 indispensable to how they operate. This is a hands-on engineering role: you write production code, you ship it and you see your work create value in days, not quarters. You'll spend the majority of your time in the field with customers, then bring what you learn back to our core engineering and product teams to make the platform better for everyone. It's the ideal role for an engineer who wants to combine deep technical work with direct customer impact, and who's excited to learn a modern AI stack end-to-end. What you'll do: - Embed with strategic accounts. Sit with our top enterprise clients to deeply understand their domain, data sources, security requirements, and analyst workflows and then translate those into concrete technical solutions. - Build custom integrations and solutions. Write production code on top of F2's platform: connectors to customer data rooms and document management systems, ingestion pipelines, workflow automations, and domain-specific features tailored to each client's needs. - Own the technical relationship. Act as the trusted technical partner for the customer's team throughout the engagement; from initial deployment and configuration through production rollout and optimization. - Prototype, validate, ship. Move fast: build a prototype, put it in front of the customer, iterate on real feedback, and get it into production through our CI/CD pipelines while meeting our engineering standards. - Generalize back into the platform. Return from engagements and work with core engineering and product to turn one-off customer solutions into reusable abstractions and platform capabilities that scale across our entire customer base. - Be the voice of the customer. Bring hard-won field insights back to the roadmap, championing the features and integrations that solve real enterprise problems. - Work alongside core engineering. Participate in shared code review, architecture discussions, you're a full member of the engineering org, not a siloed services team. What you bring: - Hands-on full-stack or backend engineering. 3+ years shipping production software, ideally with Python and/or TypeScript. You're comfortable owning a feature end-to-end across an unfamiliar codebase. - Customer-facing instincts. You communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and you enjoy being in the room with customers translating ambiguous requirements into working software. - Pragmatic and fast. You prototype, validate, and ship in days and weeks, not months. You'd rather get something real in front of a customer than perfect a diagram. - Comfort with cloud and infra fundamentals. Working familiarity with AWS, containers, CI/CD, and Postgres/SQL. Experience with Temporal, Redis, and LLM tooling is a strong plus. - Integration mindset. Experience building connectors, APIs, or ETL/data pipelines against messy real-world data sources and enterprise systems. - Security awareness. You understand why enterprise clients care about tenant isolation, least-privilege access, and data handling, and you build with those constraints in mind. - Builder's curiosity. You enjoy learning a new domain (private markets / finance) and a full AI application stack, and you thrive in a 0→1 environment where you own outcomes. ## About F2 ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: F2 is an AI platform purpose-built for private markets investors — it helps private credit, private equity, and commercial banking teams screen, diligence, underwrite, and monitor deals faster and with greater institutional knowledge. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; raised $10.1M total) - **Headquarters**: New York, NY, United States - **Founded**: 2025 - **Founders**: Don Muir (Co-Founder & CEO), Emre Kazdagli (Co-Founder & CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industries**: Financial technology (Fintech), AI for private markets (private credit, private equity, commercial banking) - **Target customers**: Investment firms, asset managers, commercial banks – B2B Enterprise - **Mission or purpose**: “Turn every transaction into a proprietary advantage that makes the firm smarter over time” – compounding intelligence for private markets. ## Products & Services - **F2 Platform (Institutional Knowledge)**: A unified SaaS platform that ingests a firm’s historical IC memos, financial models, CIMs, and CRM data into a queryable “living library.” Teams can pull precedents, surface past risks, and underwrite with the pattern recognition of the most experienced deal leads. Includes: - **Screening & Diligence**: Context-aware search across all past deals and market data. - **Underwriting (Excel-Native Engine)**: A real Excel engine underneath the AI that outputs live Excel files with formulas, cell references, and dependency tracking. No black boxes. - **Audit Mode**: Click any number to see the formula and trace it back to its source cell. - **Portfolio Monitoring**: Covenant performance, exposure testing, and fund-level reporting. - **Additional Features**: Downside risk & covenant analysis, sponsor & stakeholder analysis, cash flow & coverage metrics, precedent comp tables. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$10.125M** (Seed rounds in 2025; includes a $10M round led by NFX, Left Lane Capital, and Y Combinator) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: NFX, Left Lane Capital, Y Combinator - **Growth Signals**: - Over **15,000 deals** underwritten annually on F2 across firms managing more than **$400B in client assets**. - #1 on **SpreadsheetBench**, the industry standard benchmark for spreadsheet AI. - SOC 2 Type 1 & Type 2 certified, GDPR compliant. - Team grew to ~20 employees within first year (monthly headcount growth +4.3% as of mid-2026). - Active hiring for multiple roles (10 open positions as of July 2026). ## Competitive Advantages - **Excel-Native AI**: Unlike general-purpose AI, F2 runs a real Excel engine – outputs are genuine .xlsx files with live formulas, dependency tracking, and transparent audit trails. - **Institutional Knowledge Compounding**: Every deal that passes or closes automatically flows back into the library, so the platform gets smarter with each transaction. - **Enterprise Security & Trust**: Zero data retention, no model training on customer data, SOC 2 Type II, role-based access, GDPR compliant. - **Specialized for Private Markets**: Built specifically for the workflows of private credit and private equity, not a horizontal AI tool. ## Strategic Focus - Scale adoption among institutional investors (private credit, commercial banking, PE). - Deepen the platform’s institutional knowledge capabilities and grow the dataset from customer deals. - Continue to invest in financial accuracy and spreadsheet-native AI (maintain #1 position on SpreadsheetBench). - Expand the team across engineering, sales, and client success. ## Why Work Here - **Early-stage impact**: As a YC S25 company with 15–20 employees, new hires will have significant ownership and influence on product and culture. - **Hybrid / Remote**: The company is headquartered in New York City with a hybrid model; many roles are listed as hybrid or remote (some fully remote). Employees work remotely across the U.S. - **Culture highlights**: Fast-paced, mission-driven environment focused on solving a real pain point in finance. “Force multiplier” ethos – giving analysts the pattern recognition of experienced managing directors. - **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on architectural rigor (real Excel engine, AI accuracy), with roles for senior software engineers (frontend, infrastructure) and AI deployment strategists. - **Perks**: Not explicitly detailed, but typical YC-backed startup benefits likely include equity, flexible PTO, and a strong focus on professional growth. ## Sources 1. [f2.ai](https://f2.ai/) 2. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/f2) 3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/f2aihq) 4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/f2) 5. 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