Forward Deployed Data Engineer
At Lunon, an AI-native consulting firm, you own the data side of client engagements: extracting data from ERP/CRM/accounting systems, building ingestion pipelines with quality and lineage controls, and producing the training/eval datasets the AI runs on. Core stack is Python, SQL, and warehouses/lakehouses like Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks.
- Compensation
- $180K–$210K / yr
- Location
- Remote (US)
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Data engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Built and run data pipelines in production, including when they broke
- Write Python and SQL well; experience with a warehouse or lakehouse such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, or Postgres
- Made sense of messy data from systems you didn't design
- Built data for an ML or LLM system: training sets, eval sets, or retrieval
- Use AI coding tools every day, judging results by the system and its output
Nice to have
- Built on or integrated with an ERP, CRM, or accounting system
- Built data quality or lineage tooling other people relied on
- Consulting, agency, or forward-deployed work experience
Full description
ABOUT LUNON
The companies that lead the next decade won't adopt AI, they'll be rebuilt around it. Lunon treats strategy and software as one discipline, shaping the systems that let ambitious companies outthink their markets and outpace their competitors.
Most advice about AI ends as a recommendation that someone else has to carry out. At Lunon, the people who decide what should change are the people who build it, so an insight becomes capability rather than a slide. We are backed by General Catalyst, and our open-source research system ranks first on DeepResearch Bench.
We're a small team and intend to stay that way. Everyone here owns their work from the first conversation to production, adopts the newest models as they land, and holds an exacting standard for craft. If you want your work to change how a company operates, not just inform it, we'd like to meet you.
ABOUT THE ROLE
As a Forward Deployed Data Engineer, you will own the foundation our AI systems stand on. A model is only as good as the data it learns from and is measured against; your work makes that data complete, traceable, and trusted.
You will work alongside a Forward Deployed AI Engineer, who owns the models. Your first project: helping an ERP company make its product AI-native.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Extract data from ERP, CRM, and accounting systems and design the pipelines that keep it flowing: ingestion, transformation, and storage
- Establish quality and lineage controls so every figure can be traced to its source
- Curate the training and evaluation datasets our models learn from and are judged by
- Run these systems in production at enterprise scale and own their reliability
- Leave behind infrastructure the company's own team can operate and extend
YOU MAY BE A FIT IF
We weigh what you have shipped and sustained over years of experience.
- You have built and operated production data pipelines, and kept them running when they broke
- You write excellent Python and SQL, and have worked with a warehouse or lakehouse such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, or Postgres
- You can bring order to data from systems you did not design
- You have prepared data for an ML or LLM system: training sets, evaluation sets, or retrieval
- You work with AI coding tools every day and judge the result by the system it produces
STRONG CANDIDATES MAY ALSO
- Have built on or integrated with an ERP, CRM, or accounting system
- Have built data quality or lineage tooling that others depended on