Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

About the role

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

We're hiring our first Forward Deployed Engineer.

As our founding FDE, you'll have significant ownership over the systems we build, the customers we work with, and the technical direction of Soren. You'll take complex, often ambiguous business problems and turn them into production AI systems used by real organizations.

This is a highly technical, customer-facing role. You'll work directly with business leaders and their teams to understand how they operate, identify opportunities for AI, and build the software to make those opportunities real. You'll work across the entire engineering stack, from AI systems and application development to backend infrastructure, integrations, and deployment.

We're a small, fast-moving team with high expectations. We move quickly, care deeply about the quality of our work, and give engineers the freedom to make important decisions. We're looking for someone who enjoys difficult technical problems, takes initiative, and wants significant responsibility from day one.

What You'll Do

You'll embed directly with customers to understand their businesses, identify where AI can make a meaningful difference, and build systems that solve real problems.

You'll own engagements end-to-end, from discovery and technical design to implementation, deployment, and iteration. You'll make architectural decisions, write production code, navigate unfamiliar technical environments, and work closely with customers to deliver results.

As our first FDE, you'll also help shape engineering at Soren, making foundational technical decisions, building reusable infrastructure, and establishing practices that future engineers will build upon.

Responsibilities

- Own customer deployments end-to-end, from understanding business problems and designing solutions to building and maintaining production AI systems.

- Design and build AI agents, full-stack applications, backend infrastructure, and integrations with enterprise systems.

- Work directly with customers, translating ambiguous requirements into technical solutions and making engineering decisions independently.

- Proactively drive projects forward, solve difficult problems, and take responsibility for the quality and success of your work.

- Help build Soren's technical foundation through internal tooling, reusable systems, and engineering best practices.

You Should Join If You

- Are an exceptional software engineer with strong technical fundamentals and experience building and shipping complex systems.

- Love solving hard technical problems, learning new technologies, and figuring things out when there's no obvious answer.

- Genuinely enjoy working with customers, understanding their businesses, and solving problems alongside them.

- Are highly proactive, resourceful, and independent. You don't wait for instructions. You identify what needs to happen and make it happen.