Forward Deployed Engineer

About the Role
Forward Deployed Engineers are the tip of the spear at Sequence. You’ll walk into an operating company and within weeks, you’ll understand how the business works better than most people who’ve been there for years. Then you’ll rebuild it.

Your job is to translate human knowledge work into AI compute. The operator who spends three hours reviewing documents before making a decision. The sales team that maintains a pipeline in their heads because the tools don’t work in the field. The compliance team that manually checks every transaction against a spreadsheet of rules. You’ll find these workflows, build AI-powered systems that transform them, and ship production software that people use daily — not demos, not pilots, real systems that run real businesses.

Every transformation you do feeds back into Sequence’s core AI platform — so that services businesses start to feel like product businesses. The companies we acquire run on manual, human-intensive processes. By building reusable systems that compound across the portfolio, you make each subsequent transformation faster than the last.

As Sequence grows, the best FDEs will define and lead entire verticals, working closely with operators and investors to shape how whole industries run on Sequence’s platform.

What You’ll Work On
End-to-end AI transformations inside operating companies: discovery, scoping, building, shipping, and iterating until the business impact is measurable and undeniable
Production agentic systems — tool-calling workflows, LLM-powered document processing, intelligent routing, and automated decision support — built for reliability in regulated, high-stakes environments
Enterprise integrations with legacy systems, CRMs, compliance platforms, and operational software that was never designed for automation — including the auth, permissions, and data constraints that come with it
Reusable platform primitives that make the next transformation faster — data ingestion patterns, workflow orchestration, agent harnesses, and context layers that compound across the portfolio
Direct collaboration with management teams, front-line operators, and business leadership to understand their world and earn their trust

Requirements
Customer obsession. Has worked directly with users, changed direction based on what they learned, and genuinely cares about solving real problems for real people. This is the hardest quality to teach and the one we weight most heavily.
Demonstrated track record of impressive accomplishments, whether academic, professional, or entrepreneurial
Can operate in ambiguity. Comfortable walking into a business with no roadmap and figuring out what to build first by talking to people, not reading docs.
Raw horsepower and tenacity. Will run through walls to deliver results.
Proven ability to build from 0 to 1
Strong communicator who can explain a technical architecture to a CEO and translate a front-line operator’s frustration into a system design
Willing to travel to operating companies — expect to be on-site at the business you’re transforming for meaningful stretches