--- title: 'Principal Forward Deployed Engineer at Maybern' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/principal-forward-deployed-engineer-maybern-new-york-prjj9y52yn4a' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # Principal Forward Deployed Engineer at Maybern - **Company:** Maybern - **Location:** New York, NY - **Compensation:** $310k–$350k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-07-02 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/maybern/8918ec51-bcb9-49ec-acd6-9072b2427781 ## Job description ## WHO WE ARE Maybern is transforming the way private fund managers effectively manage their funds through cutting edge technology: an operating system with deterministic guard rails underneath, agents on top. Maybern is founded by top engineering experts with deep knowledge of the fund management space. Private funds manage $15T in capital and are growing at 20% YoY, but with increasing regulatory scrutiny and investor demands for transparency, the need for more modern, fully agentic solutions to help private fund CFOs is crucial. This is where Maybern comes in. We are equipping fund managers with a fully agentic operating system for private fund management, enabling private investment managers to focus on what they do best: driving returns for their investors. We are backed by leading venture capital firms and a large number of strategic investors. Maybern is an NYC based company with a strong in-office culture to drive collaboration, and we are looking to make strong additions to our team. ## What We're Looking For Maybern is building the operating system for agentic fund management, and Forward Deployed Engineering is where that meets the real world. Our FDE team partners directly with some of the largest private funds on the planet to build sophisticated applications that extend the Maybern platform: production AI, decision support, forecasting, optimization, scenario analysis, formalized workflow logic, and high-assurance automation. This is not a someday roadmap. We have signed engagements running today and more closing behind them. The Principal FDE will be our most senior client-facing technical leader, sitting at the intersection of technical solutioning, customer leadership, and delivery management. You will sit across the table from CFOs and managing partners who are racing to automate their firms with AI, translate ambiguous, high-stakes problems into structured proposals, lead engagements end-to-end, and set the technical bar for a practice you'll help build and hire. Compensation is designed for outperformance: competitive base, meaningful equity, and a tiered performance bonus where top performers can earn up to 35%. ## What You'll Do - Lead early-stage discovery with the most senior people in private markets, translating ambiguous and sometimes contradictory needs into structured proposals, and scoping engagements across AI, forecasting, automation, decision support, and platform integration - Own senior client relationships end-to-end, from initial discovery through production adoption, managing scope, timeline, and expectations along the way - Architect production-grade AI systems that clients run their business on, not demos: agentic workflows, extraction and automation over messy real-world data, evals, optimization, simulation, and decision support, in collaboration with the engineering team - Support the sales motion by lending technical credibility to pre-sales conversations and helping shape and close new engagements - Build the practice: establish a repeatable solutioning and scoping playbook, mentor engineers across the team, help hire the bench beneath you, and identify when bespoke customer work should become reusable product capability ## Who You Are - Executive Presence: You are comfortable in the room with senior, non-technical clients. You listen well, ask sharp questions, earn trust quickly, and push back when needed without losing the relationship. - Solution Architect & Proposal Writer: You can take a vague client problem, structure it into a credible technical plan, and author a written proposal from scratch: framing the problem, the approach, the deliverables, and the value. - Delivery Leader: You have led end-to-end engagements with meaningful complexity, owning scope, timeline, and outcomes across both technical and client-facing work streams. - Builder of Real AI: You think past the happy path. You care about how a system behaves when the data is messy, how errors get caught, and how AI holds up when someone else's business depends on it. - Driven by Outcomes: You are competitive, high-ownership, and motivated by impact and upside. You think in terms of the ROI of your work, not just the deliverable. - This role is based in New York, with roughly 25% travel for client engagements This Could Be a Great Fit If You Have… - 10+ years of customer-facing technical experience in consulting, enterprise software, or forward-deployed engineering, with a strong track record leading ambiguous client initiatives from discovery through delivery - Deep strength in Python, SQL, system design, and analytical application architecture, with hands-on experience taking AI systems to production, including agentic workflows and evaluation frameworks - Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to write proposals, scope complex engagements, and manage difficult client situations Bonus Points if You Have… - Hands-on experience with the Snowflake AI Data Platform as a starting point for architecting data, analytics, and AI workflows - Experience in finance, private markets, capital markets, fund administration, or enterprise decision systems - Experience with optimization, probabilistic systems, simulation engines, or mathematical modeling platforms - Experience turning bespoke client systems into reusable product or platform primitives - Experience building or growing a small forward-deployed or professional services team ## BENEFITS - We offer a competitive salary + equity package, comprehensive benefits, and a flexible family-friendly work environment. Some of our perks include: - Comprehensive healthcare benefits - Maybern covers 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums - HSA & FSA plans - Family-Friendly policies - Paid parental leave - Flexible schedule - Flexible PTO / sick leave - WFH as needed to fit your needs - 401k ## About Maybern ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Maybern builds an AI-powered operating system for private fund management, unifying financial and operational data for CFOs and their teams. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, $76M total funding) - **Headquarters**: New York, NY, USA - **Founded**: 2022 - **Founders**: Ross Mechanic (CEO) and Ashwin Raghu (CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Financial Technology (FinTech), specifically private fund management and fund administration software - **Target customers**: B2B – General Partners (GPs), CFOs, and finance teams at private equity, real estate, venture capital, and hedge funds (ranging from $2B to $250B+ AUM) - **Mission or purpose statement**: To build category-defining software that transforms CFOs and their teams into strategic business leaders by unifying financial and operational data on a single AI-powered platform. ## Products & Services - **Maybern Platform (The Operating System for Agentic Fund Management)**: A SaaS platform that serves as the "intelligence layer" for private funds. It combines deterministic financial rails with AI agents to automate complex fund accounting, allocations, modeling, and reporting. The platform is built for transparency and granularity, allowing accountants to verify every calculation. - **Implementation & Consulting Services**: Dedicated implementation managers and solutions architects help onboard institutional fund managers onto the platform. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed - **Key Metric**: **$76M Total Funding** (raised via a $50M Series B led by Battery Ventures, with earlier rounds including a $26M Series A) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Battery Ventures (lead, Series B), Human Capital (EIR background), and 7 institutional fund managers ($2B to $250B AUM) who partnered to design the core product. - **Growth Signals**: - $80B+ AUM on platform as of mid-2026 - 84 total employees (35 in Product + Tech) as of mid-2026 - Headcount is growing; actively hiring across Engineering, Finance, Sales, Implementation, and Design - Expanding R&D team to develop new AI-powered tools following the Series B ## Competitive Advantages - **Deep domain focus**: Built specifically for the most complex funds with extensive structures and varied investor terms, solving problems that generic ERP/accounting systems cannot handle. - **Transparency & trust**: Unlike "black box" AI systems, Maybern stores data at a granular level with a fully transparent, auditable user experience that accountants can verify. - **Co-built with customers**: The product was designed in partnership with 7 institutional fund managers, ensuring it solves real, nuanced, complex challenges. - **Founding team pedigree**: Founders are software engineers (ex-Cadre, Instagram, iHeartRadio) with deep experience in fund operations and data engineering. - **AI-native architecture**: Combines deterministic financial rails with AI agents, positioning it as the "operating system for agentic fund management." ## Strategic Focus - **Product expansion**: Building out the AI-powered intelligence layer and agentic capabilities to automate more fund finance workflows. - **R&D investment**: Using Series B funds to expand the R&D team and develop new AI tools. - **Market penetration**: Scaling sales and customer success to capture more of the $80B+ AUM market and beyond, targeting funds of all sizes within private capital. - **Talent acquisition**: Aggressively hiring across engineering (Senior, Staff, Principal, Forward Deployed), implementation, and client success roles. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Strong in-office culture at a collaborative Astor Place office (NYC) with flexibility to work remotely when needed. The team values "tackling complexity first" and moving deliberately with a high bar for quality. - **Team**: 84 employees (35 in Product + Tech) as of mid-2026, with a flat, engineering-led structure. Founders are engineers themselves. - **Benefits**: - 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums covered - Competitive salary plus equity - Flexible PTO and sick leave - 401K, HSA/FSA options - Fully paid parental leave - Commuter benefits - In-office perks: fully stocked kitchen, bi-weekly lunches, coffee chat stipend, onsite Mother's Room - **Interview Process**: Structured, transparent, and designed to reflect real work (includes recruiter screen, hiring manager interview, technical assessment (take-home or live), team interview, and offer/onboarding). Aims to respond within a week. - **DEI**: Mandated unconscious bias training; values diversity, equity, and inclusion. - **Growth**: Opportunity to work on category-defining software at a well-funded, early-stage company ($76M raised) with a clear product-market fit and massive addressable market. ## Sources 1. [maybern.com/careers](https://www.maybern.com/careers) 2. [maybern.com](https://www.maybern.com/) 3. [maybern.com/about-us](https://www.maybern.com/about-us) 4. [builtin.com/maybern-0](https://builtin.com/company/maybern-0) 5. 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