Laurel - Forward Deployed Engineer
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Requirements
• We’re looking for engineers who combine strong technical fundamentals with exceptional ownership and execution. • You may be a fit if you: • Have 4+ years of experience building production software systems • Are comfortable moving across backend, infrastructure, integrations, and customer environments • Can independently architect and ship complex systems with minimal oversight • Have experience with APIs, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and data-intensive applications • Have worked with LLMs, AI agents, retrieval systems, orchestration frameworks, or applied AI systems in production • Thrive in ambiguous environments where requirements evolve quickly • Can communicate clearly with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders • Care deeply about speed, iteration, and customer impact • Are excited to work directly with customers and own outcomes, not just tickets • Strong Signals • Strong Signals • These are not requirements, but they tend to correlate strongly with success in this role: • Startup experience or early-stage product building • Experience deploying AI systems into enterprise environments • Strong systems engineering or infrastructure background • Experience integrating with third-party enterprise systems and APIs • Familiarity with authentication systems, security constraints, and enterprise IT environments • Experience debugging production issues in unfamiliar codebases • History of shipping quickly under real-world constraints • Comfort balancing rapid iteration with long-term engineering quality • What Success Looks Like • Successful Forward Deployed Engineers at Laurel: • Earn deep trust with customer teams through technical credibility and execution • Move customers from pilot to production quickly • Create reusable technical patterns that improve the core platform • Identify the difference between one-off customization and durable product opportunity • Bring clarity to ambiguous problems • Operate with urgency while maintaining strong engineering judgment • Leave systems in a maintainable, scalable state after deployment
Responsibilities
• Work directly with customers and Laureates to understand operational workflows, constraints, and technical environments • Design and implement production-grade solutions across backend services, orchestration layers, integrations, and internal tooling • Write high-quality code across the stack — typically TypeScript, APIs, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure • Own deployments end-to-end: discovery, architecture, implementation, testing, rollout, monitoring, and iteration • Debug complex issues across customer systems, infrastructure, authentication, APIs, and data pipelines • Collaborate closely with Product and Core Engineering to turn field learnings into reusable platform capabilities • Rapidly prototype new functionality while maintaining strong engineering judgment around scalability and maintainability • Translate ambiguous customer needs into clear technical plans and execution paths • Help customers operationalize AI safely and effectively in real production environments • Help accelerate the implementation team’s efforts to reduce time to impact for customers.
Benefits
• Estimated base salary $180K – $230K • The salary range provided represents base compensation and does not include potential equity, which is available for qualifying positions, nor potential commission for applicable roles. At Laurel, we are committed to the well-being of our team by offering a comprehensive benefits package. From health and wellness programs to paid time off and retirement planning options, we provide a range of benefits for qualified employees. For detailed information on the benefits specific to your position, please consult with your recruiter. • Laurel is on a mission to return time. As the leading AI Time platform for professional services firms, we’re transforming how organizations capture, analyze, and optimize their most valuable resource: time. Our proprietary machine learning technology automates work time capture and connects time data to business outcomes, enabling firms to increase profitability, improve client delivery, and make data-driven strategic decisions. We serve many of the world's largest accounting and law firms, including EY, Aprio, Crowell & Moring, and Frost Brown Todd, and process over 1 billion work activities annually that have never been collected and aggregated before Laurel’s AI Time platform. • Our team comprises top talent in AI, product development, and engineering—innovative, humble, and forward-thinking professionals committed to redefining productivity in the knowledge economy. We're building solutions that empower workers to deliver twice the value in half the time, giving people more time to be creative and impactful. If you're passionate about transforming how people work and building a lasting company that explores the essence of time itself, we'd love to meet you. • To date, we've secured significant funding from renowned venture capitalists (Google Ventures, IVP, Anthos, Upfront Ventures), as well as notable individuals like Marc Benioff, Gokul Rajaram, Kevin Weil, and Alexis Ohanian • A smart, fun, collaborative, and inclusive team • Great employee benefits, including equity and 401K • Bi-annual, in-person company off-sites, in unique locations, to grow and share time with the team • An opportunity to perform at your best while growing, making a meaningful impact on the company's trajectory, and embodying our core values: understanding your "why," dancing in the rain, being your whole self, and sanctifying time
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