Forward Deployed Engineer
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Sola is looking for a software engineer to cover the last mile of software development to personalize Sola’s value proposition to customers. It is a challenge demanding the thorough comprehension of customer priorities, product sense, communication, and ownership.
You’ll work closely with the CTO and own the technical relationship with our customers. We attribute our market-leading conversion of 80% to the deep professional and technical expertise made possible by our solutions engineers.
What we're doing
Sola is building an agentic automation platform to support the enterprises of tomorrow. In order to deliver the experience we want, we’ve reimagined enterprise process automation to effortlessly and safely apply foundation AI models at scale across web and desktop interfaces.
Some topics we’ve gone deep on include AI-enabled error correction algorithms, Markov Decision Models using AI inputs, agentic workflow orchestrators, AI desktop infrastructure, and more.
In just one year, Sola has been adopted by Fortune 500 companies, top U.S. law firms, and some of the largest private enterprises across industries like finance, healthcare, legal, and supply chain.
Our team is based in NYC and includes industry leaders who have built and scaled businesses, contributed to the largest quantitative funds, crypto projects, and research labs, and have been founders themselves. We’ve raised our Series A from a Tier-1 VC and Conviction, with additional backing from the founders and CEOs of Dropbox, Zoom, Zapier, Scale, and more.
Sola’s workflow automation product is just the first step – our hardest challenges lie ahead. If you’re excited to solve some of the world’s most critical automation problems, we’d love to hear from you.
Who we are
Sola was founded in 2023 by Jessica Wu and Neil Deshmukh, who were previously at MIT and have experienced firsthand the RPA pain point within their previous experiences in finance and healthcare (prev. at IBM-Watson, MGH, BWH, Citadel Securities, Goldentree AM), and have extensive research experience in relevant areas (published in NeurIps/IEEE for research on multimodal models, computer vision, and robotics).
We’ve most recently raised a Series A from a Tier-1 VC and Conviction, with additional backing from Y Combinator (S23 batch) and the founders and CEOs of Dropbox, Zoom, Zapier, Scale, and more.
What you’ll be doing
As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will:
Help our existing clients architect and build complex automation applications and client system integrations
Coordinate and collaborate with our engineers and PMs to meet customer requirements
Build pilots showcasing Sola to large value enterprise leads
Contribute to Sola’s core backend stack, including integrations
Qualifications
We are looking for applicants with these skills:
Experience working in Typescript and Python
Experience using Selenium, Appium, Puppeteer, or any other automation libraries
Is comfortable interfacing with our customer to deeply understand their challenges
2+ years of software engineering experience (or solutions engineer experience)
Benefits
🌇 Where: Strongly preferred in-person (NYC) with covered relocation. We believe the best work happens in person!
💸 Compensation: We hire exceptional people and pay them well. Every role includes competitive salary and meaningful equity
🩺 Healthcare: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage on par with Big Tech
📈 401k: Easy enrollment with smart options to help you save for the future
🍽️ Meals: Daily lunches, dinners, and snacks so you can stay focused on work
🏝️Time Off: Up to four weeks of flexible PTO