Forward Deployed Engineer

Forward Deployed Engineer ProSights is a data / AI transformation partner to PE-backed portcos.

Location New York, NY, US Type Full-time Salary $160K - $200K Equity 0.25% - 0.75% Experience 3+ years Visa US citizen/visa only

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About the role About ProSights

ProSights is a data transformation partner to the largest private equity-backed portfolio companies. We help them solve their biggest data ingestion and migration problems: unifying messy data after M&A, turning documents into clean structured data, replacing spreadsheet workflows with real software, and keeping CRM and financial data in sync across systems.

We embed engineers inside the company, ship a working prototype in 48 hours, and have production software live in about four weeks.

More than 70% of the top 20 funds are already customers. We work with the investment firms themselves and the portfolio companies they own, which gives us a direct line into hundreds of companies.

What you would build

• Custom apps, data pipelines, integrations, and AI agents, pointed at the problems every portfolio company has:

Post-M&A data migration. Unify messy contract, customer, and financial data after an acquisition into one source of truth.

Document & data pipelines. Turn documents and systems of record into structured, cited output that downstream teams can trust.

Custom operational apps. Replace paper, binder, and spreadsheet workflows with software the team actually runs on.

Revenue & CRM operations. Clean pipeline data, automate renewals and pricing, and keep customer records in sync across systems.

System integration & AI agents. Pipe clean data into the ERP, CRM, and warehouse, and stand up agents that handle the repetitive work.

What the job is actually like

Embed with a portfolio company. Sit with the people doing the work, learn how the business runs, and find the problem worth solving.

Prototype fast. Get to a working prototype in 48 hours, not a slide deck.

Ship to production. Take it from prototype to live software in about four weeks, running on their real data.

Own the outcome. Stay on the hook until it works and creates value, then hand over software the company owns.

Move across the portfolio. Carry what you build from one company to the next so each engagement is faster than the last.

Be the face of ProSights on site. Work directly with founders, operators, and PE deal and value-creation teams.

Who you are

Experienced builder. 4+ years building and shipping production software, with real ownership of outcomes.

Strong and fast. Python, SQL, APIs, and data pipelines; comfortable building with LLMs (RAG, evals, prompting, agents).

Full-stack enough to ship. You can put a usable app in front of a non-technical team, not just a backend.

Strong judgment. You can diagnose an ambiguous business problem, talk to operators and executives, and decide what is worth building.

High agency. You go onsite, navigate a messy company, and make things work without waiting for a spec.

NYC-based and happy to travel to customer sites.

We sponsor any and all visas necessary for work.

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About ProSights Workflow automation platform for finance professionals

The interview process

• 3-4 conversations with founders and team.
• A paid work trial. You will work on a real ProSights problem and we will pay you for your time. It is mutual diligence on how you diagnose, scope, and build against minimal instructions.
• Dinner, lunch, or coffee with the team before any decision.
• We can go from first call to decision in about a week for the right person.

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