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

- **Company:** Sola
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $120k–$200k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-26
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sola/cf2b27be-7dc8-4e14-aff0-512639bac918

## Job description

Help build the next category-defining AI company AI has transformed how we write, communicate, and build software. The next frontier is even bigger: transforming how businesses actually operate. That's what we're building at Sola. Sola is an AI-native platform reinventing enterprise process automation and disrupting legacy RPA tools. Our AI agents can execute complex workflows across any application, browser, desktop, or legacy system—free from the limitations and fragility of traditional automation tools. Users simply record their screen, and Sola creates a custom agent to run that process at scale. The opportunity at hand is enormous. Nearly every enterprise, across every industry, runs on processes that are still painfully manual. We're building the technology to change that. And we're just getting started. We're hiring a small group of Forward Deployed Engineers to help bring Sola to the world's largest enterprises and rewrite the playbook for how automation is built in the enterprise.

Why Sola? Why now?

A massive market ready for reinvention. Enterprise automation is one of the biggest opportunities in AI. Legacy automation platforms have been constrained by rigid rules, complex implementations, and brittle workflows.. Sola is changing that with AI agents that can reason, adapt, and execute work across enterprise systems: the next generation of a massive software category.

Real traction. Serious momentum. Sola today powers enterprise workflows across healthcare, finance, legal, logistics, and more, including at Fortune 500 companies. We've closed seven-figure enterprise deals with a lean team. The product is proven. The market is responding. Now we're building the team to scale it.

Build alongside leaders who've done it before. Work alongside David Fullerton, formerly CTO of Heap (Series C to acquisition) and Stack Overflow (Series A to E), as well as Sola's founders Neil Deshmukh and Jessica Wu. You'll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional engineers and help shape how the company grows.

Early-stage ownership. Exceptional upside. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Conviction, and Y Combinator, Sola has raised more than $20M to build the future of enterprise automation. We’re still early enough that individual contributions can meaningfully influence the company’s trajectory, and you’ll have a direct influence on how the FDE role evolves over time.

## What you'll do

As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Sola, you'll combine hands-on technical execution with customer-facing communication and partnership.

- Dive deep on customer workflow failures using logs, browser tools, APIs, and code, then implement and verify fixes
- Build custom integrations and contribute production code to Sola's platform, turning recurring customer needs into reusable improvements
- Join customer calls alongside Customer Success, ask questions that clarify the problem, and own the solution through resolution
- Help customers onboard and adapt their workflows to Sola, including occasional travel for customer onboarding and key projects as needed

Who we're looking for We're open to early-career engineers, new graduates with demonstrated programming ability, or strong customer-facing engineers who are comfortable writing production code. You'll likely be a strong fit if you have:

- Strong technical foundations, whether from a CS degree with demonstrated coding abilities, or hands-on experience in a strong technical environment
- Flexibility to move across different customer environments, with a solid understanding of how core web technologies work and the ability to dive into complex desktop or legacy systems
- A strong sense of curiosity and a drive to go anywhere needed to solve tricky customer problems
- Excellent communication skills, and a demonstrated ability to turn complex technical findings into clear non-technical explanations

You'll work 5 days a week out of our office in NYC (we'll cover relocation!) and occasionally travel to customers as needed.

## Compensation & Benefits

Sola offers competitive salary plus meaningful equity at Series A stage. Exact compensation is based on experience and level. We offer comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401(k) matching, daily meals together in the office, flexible PTO (4 weeks per year), and relocation support for candidates not already based in NYC.

## About Sola

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sola provides an agentic process automation platform that uses LLMs and computer vision to transform screen recordings into fully functional bots.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage: Series A)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Jessica Wu (CEO) and Neil Deshmukh (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise Automation / Robotic Process Automation (RPA) / AI
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise, Healthcare, Legal, Government, Transportation & Logistics, Financial Services
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Make powerful automation effortless — empowering teams to reclaim time and unlock impact." Sola envisions a world where bots handle repetitive tasks so humans can focus on what they do best. [sola.ai](https://www.sola.ai/about-us)

## Products & Services
- **Agentic Process Automation Platform**: A unified platform that records user actions and generates bots using LLMs and computer vision. Core features include:
  - **AI-Powered Workflow Generation**: Creates bots from screen recordings.
  - **Visual Workflow Editor**: A Figma-esque, no-code editor for designing, modifying, and maintaining automations.
  - **Adaptive Automations**: Bots that use dynamic logic, real-time error handling, and user feedback to adapt to changing conditions and minor UI changes.
  - **API Support**: Composable workflows that can be triggered via API and integrated into existing systems.
  - **Orchestration**: Centralized oversight for running and managing automations across teams and systems.
  - **Document Processing**: AI-powered extraction, validation, and structuring of data from documents.
  - **Data Transformation**: Tools to shape, clean, and prepare structured and unstructured data within workflows.
  - **Transparent Monitoring**: Real-time logs, audit trails, and performance insights for every automation.
  - **Enterprise Security**: SOC II & HIPAA compliant, role-based access controls, and enterprise-grade scale.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — $21 Million (Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Conviction leading a prior Seed Round). [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2025/06/12/sola-solutions-raises-21-million-enterprise-ai/) via [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sola-ai) and [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sola)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz (Lead, Series A), Conviction (Lead, Seed Round), Y Combinator (Participated in W23 Batch).
- **Growth Signals**: 235% year-over-year headcount growth (now at 24 employees). Operates in 9 countries. Active job postings have increased 400% year-over-year. Strong LinkedIn follower growth (+1016.5% yearly). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sola-ai)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Speed of Automation**: Sola's key differentiator is the fastest time-to-value by converting screen recordings into automations in minutes, bypassing the lengthy configuration process of traditional RPA tools.
- **AI-Native & Adaptive**: Unlike legacy RPA that relies on brittle if-then logic, Sola uses LLMs and computer vision to create bots that learn, make decisions, and self-optimize in real time, adapting to UI and data changes.
- **Citizen Developer Focus**: The no-code visual editor empowers business experts, not just developers, to build and maintain automations, making "citizen development" a reality.

## Strategic Focus
- **Enterprise Adoption**: Targeting heavily regulated, process-intensive industries like Healthcare, Legal, and Financial Services where legacy RPA is prevalent but slow.
- **Platform Expansion**: Building a comprehensive, unified platform with a full suite of tools (editor, API, monitoring, orchestration) to win enterprise accounts.
- **Scaling the Team**: With fresh Series A funding and massive headcount growth, the focus is on hiring across engineering, ML, and recruiting to scale the product and go-to-market.

## Why Work Here
- **High-Impact Engineering Culture**: The team is technically driven, with founders who have backgrounds in quantitative research, AI research (MIT-IBM Watson), and successful startup experience. The tech stack is modern, focusing on LLMs, computer vision, and agentic architectures.
- **Strong Backing & Trajectory**: Backed by top-tier investors like Andreessen Horowitz and Y Combinator with explosive growth (235% headcount growth, 400% increase in job postings year-over-year), indicating a strong product-market fit and rapid scaling.
- **Ambitious Mission**: The opportunity to "build the future of work" and shape the next generation of automation is a core part of the company's pitch to potential hires. [sola.ai](https://www.sola.ai/about-us)
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office Policy**: Not explicitly stated, but the headquarters is in New York City and the team operates across 9 countries, suggesting a remote-friendly or hybrid culture.
- **Current Openings**: Active roles include Software Engineer (Fullstack, Backend, ML Platform, Windows AI Automation) and Founding Recruiter. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sola)

## Sources
1. [sola.ai](https://www.sola.ai/)
2. [sola.ai - About Us](https://www.sola.ai/about-us)
3. [linkedin.com - Sola](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sola-ai)
4. [ycombinator.com - Sola](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sola)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com - Sola](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sola)

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