Job Description

About Fulcrum

Fulcrum is re-wiring the insurance-brokerage industry with AI agents that let brokerages grow revenue without adding headcount. Our platform already saves customers thousands of hours and millions of dollars every year.

Why Fulcrum

• Rocket-ship growth. We’ve grown 5× in the last six months—and accelerating.
• Extreme ownership. You’ll work directly with enterprise users and ship end-to-end products that save them hours every week.
• Bleeding-edge problems, real impact. Tackle tough AI and product challenges whose wins show up immediately in customer workflows.
• In-person collaboration. Join a lean, staff-level team (ex-Affirm, Uber, DoorDash, McKinsey) working side-by-side in San Francisco; we believe the best ideas are fostered in an in-person environment.
• Top-of-market rewards. Competitive base salary plus meaningful founding-team equity.

The Founding Forward Deployed Engineer Role

As a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer at Fulcrum, you will own and lead implementing AI workflows using our Generative AI platform with customers to create millions in value. You will work closely with the founders, enterprise customers, and a world-class technical team to revolutionize the way enterprises operate.

We are looking for individuals who have been customer-facing, worked across the stack on incredible products, and are excited about building the future of the modern enterprise and GenAI products.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end execution of high stakes projects : A day might span discussing architecture with fellow engineers, wrangling massive-scale data, coding a custom web app, speaking with customer executives
• Work on tuning our AI platform to customer requirements : Work with large language models of different kinds to juice out high level of effectiveness based on customer requirements
• Realize breakthroughs to enable novel AI-first workflows : A highly analytical approach and eagerness to solve technical problems with data structures, storage systems, cloud infrastructure, front-end frameworks, and other technical tools

About You

• Strong technical experience : 1-2+ years of prior full-time industry experience in software development / solutions engineering, preferably with a focus on AI. Proficiency in one or more of Python, Typescript, Node, React, Next.js or similar languages
• Strong customer-facing experience : 2+ years of professional experience in a role that involved building alongside customers (e.g., previous founding engineer roles, founder, forward deployed / solutions role at another top-tier company like Palantir, Scale AI)
• Product mindset : You have a strong product mindset, can put yourselves in the shoes of a user and critically think through UX to ensure releases are well rounded
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment : Ability to collaborate efficiently in teams of technical and non-technical individuals, and comfortable working in a dynamic environment with evolving objectives and iteration with users
• Excited to wear multiple hats: You’re excited to iterate and work with customers, do product and release management all while shipping features fast
• LLM experience is a big plus : Have experience with leveraging LLM APIs
• Grit : experience working at early-stage startups is a plus

Bonus Qualifications

• You have experience with AI platforms and technologies, including generative models and LLMs
• Previous experience working in an early-stage startup or dynamic environment

What we offer

• Competitive salary ($125k-$145k) + equity on founder-friendly terms.
• Full health, dental & vision.
• High-ownership, high-trust culture with lightning-fast executors.
• Regular team off-sites, dinners, and an office stocked for builders.

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