Forward Deployed Engineer

About the role

🏔 Product: Sixfold is the AI brain for underwriting. Our platform handles submissions at scale, assessing risk against appetite, surfacing cited insights, and deploying AI agents to handle research, referrals, and triage so underwriters can focus on building profitable portfolios. 💪 Team: A focused team of insurance operators, AI researchers, and engineers who love hard problems. We're pushing the boundaries of AI adoption across every function, from how we build, to how we sell and to how we support customers. We ship fast and stay close. 📈 Traction: Processing billions in premium for some of the world's largest carriers. We know AI. We know underwriting. We're building what comes next. You'll be Sixfold's first dedicated Forward Deployed Engineer, anchored to our newest product line and its customers. As we scale, you'll grow into the lead FDE role across Sixfold's product portfolio. In this role, you will: Own the technical relationship with a portfolio of customers: joint architecture sessions, integration design, production debugging, and more. Plug our product into each customer's ecosystem : third-party data integrations, product customizations, and the deep integration work that embeds Sixfold in their underwriting stack. Ship the work yourself , leveraging agentic engineering best practices. Surface trends and patterns from customer work and partner with product engineering to land them in the roadmap. Translate fluently between audiences : from "what does this mean for our renewal" with a Customer Success Manager, to "what's the right primitive here" with a product engineer, in the same afternoon. Travel to customer sites when the work calls for it. Help shape the FDE function itself : the operating model, the hiring bar, the success measures. You'll be a primary voice in what FDE at Sixfold becomes. What Success Looks Like Within 30 days: You're familiar with the domain of an underwriter. You understand where their bottlenecks are, the pain points they feel day-to-day, and how Sixfold fits into their workflow. You're comfortable in the codebase of our products and have shipped code to production. Within 60 days: You're DRI on a customer engagement, working with checkpoints rather than oversight. You're shipping integration and customization work and running joint sessions with customer tech teams. You've spotted at least one recurring pattern and partnered with PM to land it in the roadmap. You're baselining your own turnaround time and are starting to see where the leverage is. Within 90 days: You're running your customer portfolio, making execution calls (mitigate, fix, roadmap) on your own judgment, surfacing tradeoffs, escalating when something warrants it. You're shipping product capability that compounds across customers. You're materially shaping how FDE operates at Sixfold, bringing concrete proposals on the operating model, intake, and success measures. About You Senior level engineer with significant production experience shipping non-trivial systems end-to-end. You've owned things, not just contributed to them. Agentic coding is your default workflow. You ship real feature work through Claude Code or Codex, orchestrate parallel agents, design specs and prompts as a primary craft, and have strong instincts around evals, tool use, and context engineering. You can show us work you've done this way. Strong project management instincts. You can hold multiple customer engagements, internal threads, and product bets in flight at once without dropping balls or letting urgency from one quietly tax the others. You know when to push, when to park, and when to escalate. Clear, consistent communicator. Stakeholders never have to chase you for status. You write clearly, set expectations early, and update proactively across customers, CS, PMs, engineers, and leadership. You switch

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Forward Deployed Engineer Insurance underwriting runs on human judgment, manual workflows, and knowledge locked in someone's head. It breaks when that person leaves and doesn't scale when the book doubles. Sixfold is building AI agents that understand risk the way a 20-year veteran underwriter does. We build systems that make real decisions on billions in premium for some of the world's largest carriers. AI is the product and the workflow. The Forward Deployed Engineer sits at the edge of what we've built and what our customers need, making AI agents deliver in production. You'll be the senior technical partner on the ground with customers running joint architecture sessions, shipping integrations into their tech stack, and turning recurring patterns into platform capabilities. This is a senior role for someone who lives and breathes AI tools. If your default workflow is Claude Code or Codex, you orchestrate parallel agents to ship feature work, enjoy spec driven development, and understand evals, tool use, and context engineering, then this role was created for you.

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