Cabana
Forward Deployed Engineer
We captured this posting once, on 2026-08-05, and did not track it afterwards — so we cannot tell you whether it is still open.
- Employer
- Cabana
- Location
- New York, United States
- Seniority
- Entry level
- Experience asked for
- 2+ years
- Pay band
- $180K – $600K
When we saw it
- Posted 2026-07-14 — the date the employer published it
- Archived 2026-08-05 — when we saved this copy
Found via LinkedIn — US keyword pulls.
Skills the posting named
From the posting
Forward Deployed Engineer - Bootstrapped Startup with a team of 40. $180,000 base ($240k - $600k OTE) Every business over a billion in revenue is currently asking the same question: what does this company look like if AI does half the work in five years? Most don't know how to answer it. That's why they call our client. They embed elite teams directly into client operations, find the bets that actually move the business, and ship the work that makes those companies AI-native. They're formal partners with the two leading frontier labs and sit in the room with their applied AI teams on real client problems. They hire for high agency and high urgency, and care far more about what you've built than where you trained. The role Strategists scope and prioritise the bets. Forward Deployed Engineers make them real. …
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