As a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer, you will build frontier agentic systems that replace manual back-office operations for global CPG brands. You'll bridge the gap between high-level customer problems and production-ready AI workflows, shipping features in hours to automate the complex supply chain and logistics processes powering the world’s largest retailers.
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Founding Forward Deployed Engineer at Corvera
Join an elite YC-backed founding team in San Francisco building the AI workforce for the massive CPG industry. This isn’t a standard engineering role—you’ll be shipping production-grade agentic systems for global brands in hours, not weeks. With $6.3M in funding and revenue scaling from zero to $35k MRR in 60 days, we are seeking an intense, high-energy builder ready to operate at the 996 pace of a future unicorn. If you’re a world-class communicator who wants to replace legacy back-office spreadsheets with autonomous AI agents and own outcomes end-to-end, this is the ride of a lifetime.
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About the company
Corvera
Y Combinator-backed (W26) AI workforce startup building agentic systems for the CPG back-office, recently secured $6.3M in funding led by Firstminute Capital with top-tier VC participation.
What you'll do
What you will do
- Partner directly with CPG brands to map complex manual workflows into sophisticated, autonomous software abstractions.
- Design and deploy agent-driven systems that integrate with ERPs and retailer portals to execute business processes end-to-end.
- Improve the reliability and observability of non-deterministic AI systems, ensuring accuracy in high-stakes production environments.
Who you are
Who this is a fit for
- 2-5+ years of experience building and shipping production systems end-to-end with a focus on backend, APIs, and data modeling.
- Exceptional communicator who thrives in high-pressure, ambiguous environments and defaults to immediate action over theoretical elegance.
- Proven track record of working tirelessly to solve real-world problems, ideally with experience in LLMs, agentic orchestration, or distributed systems.
Why this role
Why this role is remarkable
- Join a high-velocity team that scaled from $0 to $35k MRR in just two months and ranks in the top 10% of their YC batch.
- Work directly with founders including a former Google AI lead and a CEO who scaled a top European food brand to 5,000+ stores.
- Participate in an intense, high-trust 996 culture designed for ambitious builders who want to create the next Silicon Valley unicorn.
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