Forward Deployed Engineer

About Spara:
Spara builds enterprise-grade AI agents for marketing, sales, and post-sales across chat, email, and voice channels. Our AI engages, qualifies, and shepherds leads through complex GTM workflows, turning pipeline into revenue. We believe every company should provide AI-powered, human-level sales conversations with every lead and customers—and Spara is the platform that makes this possible.

Sales is the economic engine of every company, representing an addressable market of $28B. We're solving this complex, high revenue problem with a multi-modal approach including chat, email, voice, and beyond. This gives us a significant advantage in the market and presents exciting engineering opportunities.

We are a tight-knit, experienced team building a multi-billion dollar AI-first company in the heart of New York City. Our culture emphasizes thoughtful decisions, sustainable development practices, and steady momentum building on deep expertise.

Spara is backed by $15M in funding from top-tier venture capital firms, led by Radical Ventures & Inspired Capital, and supported by AI luminaries including the founders of PyTorch and Google Cloud TPU, as well as Heads of Sales at Anthropic and OpenAI.

We are led by seasoned multi-time founders with deep AI and go-to-market expertise:

• David, previous co-founder/CEO of Triplemint, ran training, coaching, and operations for a 250 person sales team. He led Triplemint to acquisition and currently sits on the board of The Agency RE, a $250M revenue business.

• Zander was technical co-founder of Nomad Health (now post-Series D). He most recently led Platform at Hyperscience AI, developing workflow orchestration systems for computer vision models.

About the Role:
We’re hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to work closely with new customers and prospects to ensure they get maximum value from Spara—fast. You'll lead technical onboarding, build integrations, help close high-stakes Proof of Concept deals, and actively shape our implementation playbook.

You’ll be hands-on with AI, DSL code, APIs, and customer systems, and you’ll work cross-functionally with Sales, Customer Experience, Product, and Engineering teams. This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives on solving real-world problems and wants to help shape how we scale our platform and processes.

What You’ll Do:

• Work directly with customers and prospects to understand their technical needs and goals

• Build and run technical Proof of Concepts (PoCs) that help close deals and show clear value

• Lead onboarding and implementation for new customers, from setup to integration to launch

• Write scripts, build automations, and develop custom solutions when needed

• Own integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, and other customer platforms

• Collaborate with Sales and CS to shape the technical side of the customer journey

• Identify gaps or inefficiencies in our process and proactively drive improvements

• Provide product feedback and influence roadmap decisions based on real-world usage

• Help create technical documentation and internal tools to support customer scale
  

What We’re Looking For:

• 3+ years of experience in a technical, customer-facing role (e.g. Solutions Engineer, Implementation Engineer, FDE, or similar)

• Strong coding ability and comfort working with APIs

• Excellent communication skills and a customer-first mindset

• Strong ownership mentality with a bias toward building and improving

• Experience working with sales teams and supporting the pre-sales process through PoCs

• Startup or high-growth experience preferred

• Software engineering or similar degree
  

Nice to Have:

• Background in conversational AI or marketing automation

• Experience building internal tooling or lightweight product extensions

• Familiarity with GTM tools and data pipelines

• Deep understanding of Salesforce and HubSpot ecosystems and how to integrate with them
  

Location & Work Schedule

• Hybrid: 4 days per week in our office in downtown Manhattan, with the option to work remotely on Fridays

Benefits

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package

• Sustainable work culture that values focused work and professional growth

• Collaborative environment with experienced engineers solving cutting-edge challenges

• In-office culture in NYC with flexibility for work-life balance

• Opportunity to create measurable, real-world impact from day one