Sandstone
Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer
Why it's interesting
Sandstone is blunt that this is a post-sales seat that must clear the same technical bar as core engineering — a $110K band width for a role explicitly described as "not a sales role" but which owns retention and expansion. That's the legal-AI category quietly admitting the FDE is really a commercially-accountable engineer, and paying founding-title money to avoid saying so out loud.
The role
Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer at Sandstone, the AI-native platform for in-house legal departments (Fortune 500 customers). Own engagements post-sale from onboarding through adoption, expansion and renewal; build software end-to-end for the largest accounts while sitting on the Post-Sales team. 4+ years as an FDE, full-stack engineer or technical founder, ideally in legaltech. On-site in New York. $170K–$280K base plus equity. Verified on Sandstone's Ashby board.
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