Instacart
Forward Deployed Engineer
Why it's interesting
The public grocery-tech company now runs an FDE pod — 'part startup, part consultancy' — embedding inside retailer and CPG environments to ship agentic AI on top of their stacks. $137K–$144K base is modest for the title, but it's proof the model has jumped from the labs to consumer-internet incumbents chasing enterprise revenue.
The role
Forward Deployed Engineer on Instacart's Enterprise Solutions team — a small, senior, field-first pod that embeds directly with enterprise retail and CPG partners to design, sell and deliver agentic AI solutions inside their infrastructure. Remote (Flex First); prefers a prior forward-deployed/embedded/professional-services background plus retail, e-commerce or supply-chain exposure. Sourced via LinkedIn (2026-08 snapshot); verified on instacart.careers.
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