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# Founding Forward Deployment Engineer at Glimpse

- **Company:** Glimpse
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $195k–$250k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/glimpse/920c452b-5cb9-4742-920a-c936cc19ee4b

## Job description

## ABOUT GLIMPSE

Glimpse is the leading AI platform for CPG brands — automating critical back-office workflows like deductions management, revenue recovery, and cash application. Since launching in April 2024, we've grown from 0 to 200+ customers, raised $52M from investors including a16z, 8VC and Y Combinator. Our AI agents retrieve deduction data, validate charges, automate cash application, and dispute invalid claims — work that would take a full-time employee years to complete. For a $1B CPG brand, a single Glimpse agent reviewed 17,000 deductions in under 24 hours, identifying over $10M in recoverable revenue. We're building the next-generation suite of services for consumer brands and are looking for exceptional people to help us scale.

## ABOUT THE ROLE

We are seeking a Founding Forward Deployment Engineer. You'll sit at the point where customer reality meets our product: messy ERPs, undocumented data, and asks that sound simple until you dig in. You'll turn that ambiguity into working, well-built software. You'll also define what the FDE function looks like as it grows. The integration patterns, validation standards, and ways of working you set up will outlast any single customer.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO:

- Own customer problems end to end. Take a vague customer ask and drive it to a shipped solution without waiting for a spec. Pick up the work nobody assigned when it matters.
- Find the real problem. Look past what customers literally request to what will actually make them successful. Turn scattered and conflicting feedback into a clear product direction the team can build against.
- Build data integrations that hold up. Move and reconcile SKU, inventory, transaction, and invoice data across legacy systems and modern data stacks. Handle undocumented sources, partial data, backfills, and idempotent reprocessing as a matter of course.
- Design patterns that scale. Build integration approaches that work across customers and ERPs, not one-off scripts. Plan for failure modes, scale, and future change before they force your hand.
- Make correctness a first-class requirement. Build validation, exception handling, and reconciliation into every workflow, especially where AI touches financial data. Know when an AI step shouldn't be used. Help define how Glimpse proves AI-driven outputs to customers and auditors.
- Set the bar for good code. Write clean, correct software. Use AI dev tools as a core part of how you work. Reason openly about tradeoffs.
- Make others better. Unblock teammates, mentor, and build alignment across engineering, product, and customer-facing teams.

What We’re Looking For:

- 5+ years of software engineering, with real time spent in customer-facing, solutions, or forward-deployed work
- Hands-on experience with data pipelines and integrations against financial or operational systems (ERPs, accounting, inventory, order management)
- Comfort with messy, legacy, and undocumented data sources
- A track record of owning ambiguous projects from first conversation to production
- Strong instincts for testing, validation, and auditability, plus a healthy skepticism about where AI belongs in a financial workflow
- Daily use of AI-assisted development tools
- Clear communication in conversation, writing, code, and design docs. You can explain your own code to a peer and a strategy to a skeptical customer.
- Low ego and high standards. You give and take feedback well, handle disagreement constructively, and share credit freely.
- Experience building with LLMs.

Technologies:

- Python, Node.js, Next.js
- MongoDB, PostgreSQL

## NICE TO HAVE

- Experience with retail, CPG, supply chain, or finance-ops data
- Prior early-stage or founding-team experience
- Familiarity with reconciliation or audit requirements for financial data

## WHY JOIN GLIMPSE

You'll join a company that has found genuine product-market fit and is scaling fast — with the infrastructure, capital, and team to match. Your work will directly shape how hundreds of CPG brands run their back office. And you'll have real ownership.

- Competitive salary with meaningful equity
- In-person team in NYC – high ownership, fast feedback loops
- Direct impact on a company growing at an exceptional pace
- A front-row seat to building the operating system for CPG brands

GLIMPSE is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. GLIMPSE will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

## About Glimpse

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Glimpse is an AI-native platform that automates deductions management, revenue recovery, and cash application for consumer goods (CPG) brands, turning previously accepted losses into a strategic revenue channel.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A – $35M led by Andreessen Horowitz, total raised $52M; backed by Y Combinator)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, USA (Y Combinator page) and London, England (Built In) – conflicting reports; likely dual HQ as per job postings.
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Akash Raju (CEO), Anuj Mehta (CTO), Kushal Negi (CPO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: CPG retail operations / Deductions management & revenue recovery
- **Target customers**: B2B – mid-market and enterprise CPG brands (e.g., Suave, Chapstick, Lemon Perfect) and retail partners
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Bring consumer brands into the world of AI” – empowering brands to grow with stronger margins and smarter operations rather than scaling headcount to manage complexity.

## Products & Services
- **Deductions Management**: AI agents that automatically retrieve, validate, and dispute retailer deductions. Achieves a 91% dispute win rate and removes up to 80% of manual labor hours.
- **Revenue Recovery**: Automated lookback of past deductions and chargebacks to recover lost revenue; for a $1B CPG, one agent reviewed 17,000 deductions in under 24 hours, identifying $10M+ in recoverable revenue.
- **Cash Application**: Real-time, AI-driven synchronization of payments and credit memos to the company’s ERP, reducing manual cash matching.
- **Deduction Itemization & Data Ingestion**: Centralizes fragmented data from retailer portals, emails, PDFs, and ERP systems into a single platform.

All offerings are SaaS / AI‑agent‑based.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed – private company.
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $52M ($35M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz in July 2025; $17M previous round from 8VC and Y Combinator). Also reports 14x year‑over‑year growth.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz (lead), 8VC, Y Combinator.
- **Growth Signals**: 200+ brands & retail partners; 4.3x more disputes filed; 2.5% topline revenue lift (implied); headcount of ~27 (as of YC profile), hiring aggressively across GTM, engineering, and implementation roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI‑native and CPG‑specific**: Built exclusively for retailer deduction workflows, not a generic automation tool.
- **Measurable ROI**: Dispute win rate of 91%, no minimum dollar threshold (every fee reviewed), and up to 80% reduction in manual labor hours.
- **Speed of deployment**: Agent can process the equivalent of two years of manual work in under 24 hours.
- **Deep integrations**: Seamless sync with ERP systems and retailer portals, creating a single source of truth for back‑office operations.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale the platform**: Expand from deduction management into a broader “system of action” for retail operations (including trade spend management and cash flow optimization).
- **Expand customer base**: Onboard more mid‑market and enterprise CPG brands, particularly those with complex retailer networks.
- **Deepen AI capabilities**: Improve agent intelligence for higher‑accuracy validation and automated dispute resolution, while reducing manual exceptions.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & values**: Early‑stage startup backed by top‑tier VCs (a16z, YC) with a fast‑paced, high‑impact environment. Built In lists “Career Growth & Development,” “Compensation & Benefits,” and “Stability & Growth” as strengths.
- **Work policy**: On‑site workspace in New York (NYC HQ) and London offices. Typical time on‑site: None specified, but roles are listed as on‑site.
- **Notable perks**: Equity‑based compensation at an early stage; opportunity to define engineering and product culture as a founding‑era hire.
- **Engineering culture**: Focus on AI agent architecture, large‑scale data processing (17k deductions/24h), and building infrastructure for the CPG industry – a historically underserved vertical.

## Sources
1. [tryglimpse.com](https://www.tryglimpse.com/) – Product overview, features, and customer outcomes
2. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/glimpse-tryglimpsecom) – Company facts, HQ location, team size, culture ratings
3. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/glimpse-2) – Founders, funding stage, team size, open roles
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/try-glimpse) – Current job openings and company description
5. [tryglimpse.com/post/seriesa](https://www.tryglimpse.com/post/seriesa) – Series A announcement with key metrics, investor quotes, and strategic vision

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