What We're Looking For
Maybern is building the operating system for agentic fund management, and Forward Deployed Engineering is where that meets the real world. Our FDE team partners directly with some of the largest private funds on the planet to build sophisticated applications that extend the Maybern platform: production AI, decision support, forecasting, optimization, scenario analysis, formalized workflow logic, and high-assurance automation.
This is not a someday roadmap. We have signed engagements running today and more closing behind them. The Principal FDE will be our most senior client-facing technical leader, sitting at the intersection of technical solutioning, customer leadership, and delivery management. You will sit across the table from CFOs and managing partners who are racing to automate their firms with AI, translate ambiguous, high-stakes problems into structured proposals, lead engagements end-to-end, and set the technical bar for a practice you'll help build and hire.
Compensation is designed for outperformance: competitive base, meaningful equity, and a tiered performance bonus where top performers can earn up to 35%.
Who You Are
- Executive Presence: You are comfortable in the room with senior, non-technical clients. You listen well, ask sharp questions, earn trust quickly, and push back when needed without losing the relationship.
- Solution Architect & Proposal Writer: You can take a vague client problem, structure it into a credible technical plan, and author a written proposal from scratch: framing the problem, the approach, the deliverables, and the value.
- Delivery Leader: You have led end-to-end engagements with meaningful complexity, owning scope, timeline, and outcomes across both technical and client-facing work streams.
- Builder of Real AI: You think past the happy path. You care about how a system behaves when the data is messy, how errors get caught, and how AI holds up when someone else's business depends on it.
- Driven by Outcomes: You are competitive, high-ownership, and motivated by impact and upside. You think in terms of the ROI of your work, not just the deliverable.
- This role is based in New York, with roughly 25% travel for client engagements