Forward Deployed Engineer - SF-based intern

Summary

Leadbay is a YC-backed company focused on optimizing lead qualification workflows for sales teams. They are seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer intern to collaborate closely with founders and help build customized solutions for clients, leveraging AI technology.

Responsibilities

• Land small accounts in 30-minute calls, and show them how to build what couldn't be done before
• Land large accounts over days in their offices, understand their growth strategy, and build the workflow with them
• Build everything that needs building inside our MCP product and MCP acquisition funnel
• Use your own MCP to become a living example of the most efficient sales rep in the world
• Here's what your first 30 / 60 / 90 days look like: 30 days meeting as many self-serve users as you can and shipping as many agentic systems as possible; 60 days building your library of what works; 90 days building your own skillset and walking into the offices of much bigger customers

Skills

• Technically capable and socially skilled
• Ability to be in a room with a VP of Sales at 9am and writing Python at 2pm
• Experience building AI skills, vibe-coding side projects, testing new tools
• Comfortable saying 'I don't know, let me go find out' in front of a customer
• Willingness to ship something hacky that works today rather than something clean next month
• Ability to meet self-serve users and ship agentic systems
• Ability to build a library of what works and develop personal skillset
• Ability to land small accounts in 30-minute calls and large accounts over days
• Experience building workflows with customers

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Technically capable and socially skilled
• Ability to be in a room with a VP of Sales at 9am and writing Python at 2pm
• Experience building AI skills, vibe-coding side projects, testing new tools
• Comfortable saying 'I don't know, let me go find out' in front of a customer
• Willingness to ship something hacky that works today rather than something clean next month
• Ability to meet self-serve users and ship agentic systems
• Ability to build a library of what works and develop personal skillset
• Ability to land small accounts in 30-minute calls and large accounts over days
• Experience building workflows with customers