Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer (FDE)
Founding, customer-embedded role: get customers live on the gateway, own their integration, and turn field learnings into product. Graduate-friendly, remote.
- Location
- Remote-friendly — Global
- Employment
- Full-time · Founding
- Compensation
- Expenses months 1–3, then confidential salary + founding equity
- Remote policy
- EOR hiring in 11+ countries
Offer depends on experience and location. Equity offered on top of base.
About the role
NemoRouter is a private, early-stage company building an LLM gateway — one API key, one bill, 240+ models, all enterprise features free for life. It's live, in production, with real customers. As a founding Forward-Deployed Engineer you're the technical bridge to those customers: you embed with them, get their applications running on the gateway, and turn what you learn in the field into product. This is a founding role, and we're mostly hiring new graduates with strong fundamentals and great communication. Compensation mirrors our other founding seat: expenses-only for your first three months while we build to revenue, then base salary begins — set by your country and location within a confidential range. After one year of continuous service you're recognized with co-founder status, and your founding equity matures only after three years of continuous service. We're a private company, so this is private-company stock, not publicly traded. You'll need short personal runway for the first three months; in return you get real ownership and direct customer impact from week one.
What you'll do
- Embed with customers and get them live on the gateway — integrate NemoRouter into their stack and migrate them off direct provider SDKs
- Build proofs-of-concept and reference integrations directly in the customer's codebase
- Own technical onboarding — configure keys, guardrails, prompts, and budgets around each customer's needs
- Debug integrations end to end and feed field learnings back to the core engineering team
- Be the technical face on customer calls — translate their goals into what the gateway can do
Required experience
- New graduates welcome — strong CS fundamentals and a fast learner
- Comfortable reading and writing Python and/or TypeScript in an unfamiliar codebase
- Excellent written and spoken communication — you are customer-facing from week one
- Comfortable with ambiguity, customer calls across time zones, and short personal runway for the first three months
Nice to have (3)
- A shipped side project, hackathon win, or open-source work we can look at
- Any experience integrating an API or LLM into a real app
- You want to be in the room with customers, not just the codebase
Apply for Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer (FDE)
We reply to every application within 5 business days — or email us at careers@nemorouter.ai.