Chalk
1 open Forward Deployed Engineer role at Chalk. Curated with comp bands.
Comp on the board: $170K–$280K.
On the board since Aug 2026 · still hiring
Our take
Why Chalk
A Series A data-platform seat where a wide band signals real per-deployment ownership, not a support queue.
- FDE type
- True forward-deployed
- Travel
- Medium
- Comp
- Competitive
- Stage
- Early-stage
A good fit if you're…
- Data-infra engineers who want to own feature pipelines end-to-end
- People comfortable in regulated verticals (health, fintech)
- Early-stage builders who want scope over settled process
What they do
Chalk builds a machine-learning feature platform — the layer that turns messy customer data into the features models actually score against. Their FDEs stand that platform up inside customers doing cancer detection, fraud prevention, and recommendations, which means the deployment work is genuinely technical data engineering, not configuration.
What “forward deployed” means here
This is build-side FDE work: you are writing feature pipelines against a customer's real data, not demoing a finished product. On a team this early, each FDE effectively owns a deployment, so the surface area is large and the guardrails are thin.
Comp & leveling
The board shows $170K–$280K on a $50M Series A (Felicis). A band that wide this early is the tell: leveling is unsettled and the top of the range is reserved for people who can run a deployment with little oversight. Expect meaningful equity given the stage.
Growth signals
One live role and a fresh Series A means this is an early bet, not a scaled org. The healthcare-plus-fintech customer mix is a strong durability signal — those are sticky, data-heavy verticals — but you'd be joining before the FDE motion is proven.
Analysis updated 2026-09-16
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