Join an elite founding team building agentic infrastructure for complex risk decisions. As our first Forward Deployed Engineer, you will bridge the gap between engineering and customers, sitting with underwriters in the morning and building core platform features in the afternoon to deliver immediate value within the insurance and reinsurance markets.
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Forward Deployed Engineer at Parsewise
Are you a high-ownership engineer who thrives at the intersection of product and customer? This YC-backed startup, founded by ex-Palantir and Bain leaders, is building the agentic infrastructure for complex risk decisions in the multi-billion dollar insurance market. As the first Forward Deployed Engineer, you will solve high-consequence technical challenges and sit with London’s top underwriters to deploy AI that delivers value from day one. With backing from YC and angels from OpenAI and McKinsey, a central London office, and a package including equity, this is a rare chance to join an elite team and transform an entire industry.
About this role
Role overview
About the company
Software
Parsewise is a data platform for accelerating risk decisions. We use proprietary AI agents combined with human-in-the-loop workflows to ensure high accuracy, traceability, and completeness.
Founded in 2024 by Max Hofer and Greg Csegzi, alumni of the University of Oxford with experience at Palantir, Bain, and Amazon.
What you'll do
What you will do
- Deploy and configure the platform inside customer environments, integrating directly with their technical stacks and complex underwriting workflows.
- Translate messy, real-world claims and broking documents into working platform configurations, often building side-by-side with the subject matter experts.
- Flex between technical execution and go-to-market efforts by scoping use cases, running pilots, and bringing customer insights back to the core product.
Who you are
Who this is a fit for
- Professional engineering foundation with the ability to ship production-quality code in Python or TypeScript and integrate software into complex enterprise stacks.
- Proven commercial fluency and the ability to move pilots forward by earning trust with sophisticated buyers and scoping high-value use cases.
- Minimum of 2 years of commercial insurance or reinsurance experience, with a deep understanding of the London market’s underwriting and claims workflows.
Why this role
Why this role is remarkable
- Work directly with an elite founding team from Palantir and Bain, backed by YC and prominent angels from OpenAI, McKinsey, and Capital Group.
- Solve high-consequence problems in the insurance market by building reliable, scalable pipelines that turn unstructured data into source-linked, decision-ready signals.
- Enjoy massive ownership as a first-of-its-kind hire, directly influencing the product roadmap based on your front-line work with leading enterprise customers.
Jack & Jill
How Jack & Jill work together
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I recruit from Jack’s network and make the intro when I spot a great match.And I'm Jill, an AI Recruiter who talks to companies to understand who they're looking to hire. Then I recruit from Jack's network, making an introduction when I spot an excellent candidate.
Meet Jack
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How does this work?
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