SalesPatriot YC W25 Posts Forward Deployed Engineer Role at $150K-$220K Requiring SF Relocation and Weekly Travel

The posting describes an AI-native platform replacing 1980s ERP and email workflows for aerospace, defense, and industrial distributors. Responsibilities include embedding at customer sites, mapping supply-chain breakpoints, configuring SP Studio automations, and owning outcomes until the platform becomes the customer's operating system. The process requires a technical test plus founder call before a paid fly-out to SF HQ.

The role explicitly rejects remote work despite the YC cohort's frequent remote engineering postings. Requirements list TypeScript, JavaScript, React or similar, Postgres, and a shipped full-stack project; candidates must also handle organizational politics across procurement, IT, and executive layers. Team size stands at 15-20 with co-living hacker houses in SF and Warsaw.

This mirrors Palantir's forward-deployed model but targets mid-market distributors moving $50M weekly rather than large defense primes. Non-remote structure plus multi-state travel narrows the applicant pool to engineers willing to trade location flexibility for 0.15-0.20% equity and direct customer outcome ownership.

Hiring velocity will test whether the 7-figure ARR and Paul Graham/SV Angel backing attract candidates who can ship in ambiguous environments; first cohort of hires will determine if the onsite model scales beyond the current 20-person team.