--- title: Lead Forward Deployed Engineer at SalesPatriot description: SalesPatriot is hiring for the Lead Forward Deployed Engineer role in San Francisco, CA. See the full description and apply. type: job url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/lead-forward-deployed-engineer-at-salespatriot-01a1242a-cf17-777d-bf97-757db6a9bbcf date: 2026-11-15T01:26:44Z og_description: Join SalesPatriot as Lead Forward Deployed Engineer in San Francisco, CA. Pays $150K–$220K per year. Full-time, on-site role. og_image: https://www.foundrole.com/og/1cagjv.png breadcrumbs: - label: Home url: https://www.foundrole.com/ - label: Search url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs --- | | | |---|---| | **Company** | SalesPatriot | | **Location** | San Francisco, CA | | **Salary** | $150K/yr - $220K/yr | | **Type** | Full Time | | **Posted** | Oct 10, 2026 | ## Is this job real? **Ghost job check:** C · Some flags. Mostly fine, a few things to check. ## Visa sponsorship - **H-1B:** SalesPatriot sponsors H-1B visas. It filed 1 H-1B petition (FY2026 Q1 – FY2026 Q4). - **E-Verify:** No E-Verify enrollment on record for SalesPatriot. ## Pay for similar jobs Most similar jobs pay $175,000 – $230,000 a year (median $205,000). ## Description ## The Mission America's industrial base runs on systems built in the 1980s. Billions of dollars in critical components (F-35 parts, industrial assemblies, electronics, bolts, and hoses) still move through email threads, excel sheets, and disconnected ERPs. We're replacing that with an AI-native platform that makes aerospace, electronics, industrial, and defense supply-chain operations nearly autonomous. Faster quoting. Faster procurement. Full visibility. Real operational intelligence for the companies our nation depends on. ## Quick Facts - YC W25 company. Top 5% growth in batch - Raised $10M+ from investors including Paul Graham, SV Angel, Pear VC, and CRV - Team of 20 co-live in our Warsaw & SF Hacker Houses - 7 figure ARR transacting ~$50M a week through our system ## The Job - **Go.** Fly out and plant yourself inside the customer's operation. Weekdays are onsite (Wisconsin, New York, Miami, Los Angeles); weekends we regroup at the SF HQ to debrief and keep building. - **Understand.** Map how the company actually operates, from sales and supply chain teams to executives and CEOs. Learn the breakpoints choking their growth and speed. - **Implement.** Configure automations within SP Studio tooling so the platform accurately reflects the customer's needs. Build trust and confidence in SalesPatriot. - **Iterate.** Take full ownership of the customer's outcome. Keep finding and killing their most pressing problems, leading org-wide scaling, until SalesPatriot is the operating system their business runs on. - **Lead.** Run the FDEs on your accounts. Set their priorities, review their work, and get them to where they can run an implementation without you. ## What We’re Looking For - You've owned customer-facing technical work before and can point to results you delivered. - You own the account. You set technical direction with the customer's executives and IT, decide what gets built first, and tell them no when they're asking for the wrong thing. - You make scoping and trade-off calls on your own, without waiting for sign-off. - You've mentored or managed engineers. Here you're accountable for the FDEs on your accounts hitting their outcomes. - Strong full-stack engineer: TypeScript, at least one frontend framework (React, Svelte, Next, etc), and SQL, preferably Postgres. You still ship production code every week. - You can earn trust with procurement specialists while navigating executive priorities and IT constraints. - Ready to travel every week and relocate full-time to San Francisco. This is not a remote role. - Absolute grinder. 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