Kepler
1 open Forward Deployed Engineer role at Kepler. Curated with comp bands.
Comp on the board: $200K–$280K + equity.
On the board since Jul 2026 · still hiring
Our take
Why Kepler
The Palantir Foundry core team selling the FDE motion back to finance — if the 'trust layer' bet is right, one of the highest-leverage seats on the board.
- FDE type
- True forward-deployed
- Travel
- High
- Comp
- Competitive
- Stage
- Early-stage
A good fit if you're…
- Engineers who want the Palantir deployment DNA at a startup
- People drawn to high-stakes financial-services accounts
- Full-stack builders comfortable with 30–50% travel
What they do
Kepler is an 'agent harness' that wraps LLMs in deterministic pipelines so every number traces back to source, sold to sophisticated financial firms with $10B+ AUM. The founding team spent 40+ years at Palantir building Foundry's core — Ontology, Fusion, Workshop.
What “forward deployed” means here
This is the Palantir FDE playbook, transplanted: embed with financial firms to deploy, customize, and extend the product, full-stack across Python/TypeScript with a Rust backend, at 30–50% travel from NYC HQ. Deployment ownership is the whole job, not a GTM appendage.
Comp & leveling
The band is $200K–$280K plus equity, employer-provided — competitive for an early-stage startup, though below frontier-lab cash. You're paid for deployment leverage and betting on the equity of a team with unusual pedigree.
Growth signals
Backed by founders of OpenAI, Meta AI, dbt Labs, and Square, with a CEO who was Citadel's first Head of Business Engineering. The thesis — the model is the commodity, the verifiable trust-layer harness is the product — is the bet you're underwriting.
Analysis updated 2026-09-17
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