Forward Deployed Engineer

About the role

PointOne is an AI-powered timekeeper for law firms, helping attorneys capture billable time automatically. It is a Y Combinator-backed startup scaling its engineering team before its Series A, and is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer in New York City. The engineer works in person, partners directly with law firm leadership and builds products that professionals rely on every day.

Key responsibilities

• Drive the success of strategic customer accounts by partnering with and working alongside law firm leadership.
• Develop novel AI products that give customers entirely new workflows.
• Connect regularly with and visit customers to understand their needs, prioritize requests and turn them into technical solutions.
• Prototype and integrate AI pipelines (for example retrieval-augmented generation) to prove out new workflows.
• Mentor future hires, pair with them and run code reviews to shape the engineering culture.

Required profile

• 2-8 years of experience at hyper-growth startups.
• A CS degree from a top university.
• Strong product sense and a high degree of ownership, able to operate autonomously.
• Excitement about working in person and collaborating directly with customers.

Required skills

• Experience with Go microservices and AWS serverless backends.
• React and TypeScript for building web, desktop and mobile client applications.
• Building custom RAG pipelines.

What we offer

• A competitive equity component with any compensation package.
• Health, dental and vision insurance.
• Meals in the office and regular team events.