Sandstone
1 open Forward Deployed Engineer role at Sandstone. Curated with comp bands.
Comp on the board: $170K–$280K + equity.
On the board since Jul 2026 · still hiring
Our take
Why Sandstone
A legal-AI startup admitting out loud that the FDE seat is really core engineering that owns retention.
- FDE type
- True forward-deployed
- Travel
- Low
- Comp
- Competitive
- Stage
- Early-stage
A good fit if you're…
- Engineers who want post-sales ownership without a sales title
- People interested in legal / vertical AI
- On-site NYC candidates who want founding scope
What they do
Sandstone builds AI for the legal category and is hiring a founding forward-deployed engineer to own customer deployments, retention, and expansion — the technical relationship after the sale closes.
What “forward deployed” means here
The job post is unusually blunt: explicitly 'not a sales role,' yet it owns retention and expansion and must clear the same technical bar as core engineering. That honesty is the tell — this is deep post-sales engineering, co-located and on-site in NYC.
Comp & leveling
The $170K–$280K plus equity band is a $110K-wide range for a single founding seat, which signals leveling is negotiable and outcome-driven rather than boxed. Equity carries the founding-era upside; base is solid-but-not-frontier NYC.
Growth signals
A vertical-AI company staffing a founding FDE and being candid that it owns expansion revenue shows the motion has matured past pure implementation into growth ownership.
Analysis updated 2026-09-04
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