Founding Engineer at Paragon

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will work directly with customers and the founding team to turn real industrial workflows into working end-to-end agents. One day you may be mapping how an inside sales team handles RFQs. The next day you may be building a messy integration, improving product matching, writing evals for an agent, or talking to a 65 year old industry veteran to capture their knowledge. What You’ll Do - Build AI agents for quote intake, order entry, product matching, pricing, inventory checks, and customer/vendor communication. - Integrate with messy real-world systems: Mainframe ERPs, CRMs, email inboxes, semi-broken APIs, scattered spreadsheets, etc. - Work directly with users to understand how work actually happens, not how a process doc says it happens. - Ship full-stack features across backend services, internal tools, customer-facing UI, and data pipelines. - Build learning loops so agents get more reliable over time. - Debug production issues in customer environments and turn one-off fixes into reusable product improvements. You Might Be a Fit If - You are technical, completing a CS degree or similar, and love Claude Code/Code