As a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer, you will build frontier agentic systems that replace manual back-office operations for global CPG brands. You'll bridge the gap between high-level customer problems and production-ready AI workflows, shipping features in hours to automate the complex supply chain and logistics processes powering the world’s largest retailers.
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Founding Forward Deployed Engineer at Corvera
Join an elite YC-backed founding team in San Francisco building the AI workforce for the massive CPG industry. This isn’t a standard engineering role—you’ll be shipping production-grade agentic systems for global brands in hours, not weeks. If you’re a world-class communicator who wants to replace legacy back-office spreadsheets with autonomous AI agents and own outcomes end-to-end, this is the ride of a lifetime.
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Location
San Francisco, United States
Compensation
$150k-$250k + Equity
Company
Corvera
Role overview
Corvera is an autonomous operations layer and AI-native operating system for consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands. The platform provides an AI agent workforce that automates supply chain management, including demand forecasting, inventory management, order processing, logistics optimization, and cash flow management. Corvera helps fast-growing retail brands increase profits by up to 40% by reducing wastage, improving margins, and enabling hands-free operations through autonomous digital workers that integrate with existing tools like Shopify and inventory systems.
What you will do
- Partner directly with CPG brands to map complex manual workflows into sophisticated, autonomous software abstractions.
- Design and deploy agent-driven systems that integrate with ERPs and retailer portals to execute business processes end-to-end.
- Improve the reliability and observability of non-deterministic AI systems, ensuring accuracy in high-stakes production environments.
Who this is a fit for
- 2-5+ years of experience building and shipping production systems end-to-end with a focus on backend, APIs, and data modeling.
- Exceptional communicator who thrives in high-pressure, ambiguous environments and defaults to immediate action over theoretical elegance.
- Proven track record of working tirelessly to solve real-world problems, ideally with experience in LLMs, agentic orchestration, or distributed systems.
Why this role is remarkable
- Join a high-velocity team that scaled from $0 to $35k MRR in just two months and ranks in the top 10% of their YC batch.
- Work directly with founders including a former Google AI lead and a CEO who scaled a top European food brand to 5,000+ stores.
- Participate in an intense, high-trust 996 culture designed for ambitious builders who want to create the next Silicon Valley unicorn.
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