Entry Level Forward Deployed Software Engineer Jobs
New grad forward deployed software engineer jobs are open to recent graduates and entry level candidates with little to no prior experience, where a strong portfolio or internship project can carry more weight than years on a resume. Most openings mix on-site and remote settings across Technology & Software, Consulting & Professional Services, and Accounting & Auditing, with employers like Deloitte, Palantir Technologies, and Boston Consulting hiring at this level now.
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About Pallet
Pallet is building AI Agents to transform logistics — a $12 trillion global industry. We've raised $50M from top investors, including General Catalyst, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Bain Capital Ventures. In under two years, we've achieved 700% revenue growth and are just getting started.
Our mission is to increase the efficiency of the global supply chain by automating the manual workflows that slow logistics teams down — from scheduling and appointment setting to data entry and load management. Our flagship platform provides end-to-end visibility, control, and optimization, while our newest product, CoPallet, introduces AI Agents that can understand and execute requests in real time, and integrate directly with customer systems.
As logistics providers look to generative AI to drive efficiency, many are turning to Pallet to lead the way. With deep industry expertise and cutting-edge AI capabilities, we're positioned to build the next $10B company in logistics.
Join us and work alongside leaders from Google, DoorDash, YC, and more to shape the future of logistics tech.
$160,000 - $200,000
Full-time / Onsite (5 days/week) / ~25% Travel
About The Role
We're hiring Forward Deployed Product Engineers to deploy production AI agents inside some of the world's largest logistics companies.
You'll work directly with customer operators, engineers, and executives to understand how critical workflows actually run. Then you'll design integrations, debug production systems, and ship AI-powered workflows into environments that are often undocumented, fragmented, and business-critical.
This role sits at the intersection of engineering, product, and customer operations. You'll own deployments from initial discovery through production launch. You'll spend time with customers, both remotely and onsite, solving complex operational problems and turning those solutions into reusable product capabilities.
Success in this role is measured by outcomes. Can you get systems live, make them reliable, and solve problems in environments you do not fully control?
Every deployment teaches us something new about how logistics companies operate. The patterns you uncover become product features. The problems you solve for one customer often become capabilities we ship across the platform.
This role is for you if
- You enjoy debugging messy real-world systems more than building pristine internal abstractions.
- You like working directly with customers and uncovering solutions in ambiguous environments.
- You move quickly, make pragmatic decisions, and optimize for outcomes over elegance.
- You want ownership of real business impact, not just tickets or isolated services.
- You enjoy being the person who figures things out when documentation is incomplete, and the answer isn't obvious.
This role is likely not for you if
- You're primarily interested in model research or pure ML experimentation.
- You prefer highly scoped platform work with limited customer interaction.
- You want detailed specifications before starting a project.
- You prefer remote-first environments or minimal travel.
What You'll Do
- Reverse engineer undocumented APIs, ERPs, TMS platforms, and internal tools with minimal guidance.
- Design and build integrations between customer systems and Pallet's AI platform.
- Debug production failures across distributed systems, authentication layers, data pipelines, and third-party services.
- Work onsite with customers to diagnose issues, ship fixes, and drive successful launches.
- Own customer deployments end-to-end, from technical discovery through production stability.
- Make pragmatic engineering tradeoffs under real-world constraints and tight timelines.
- Identify recurring implementation patterns and turn them into reusable product capabilities.
- Partner closely with engineering and product teams to shape the roadmap based on customer needs.
Who You Are
- 2–5 years of experience building and owning production systems in high-growth startups or similarly demanding environments.
- Strong experience working with APIs, integrations, authentication systems, and event-driven architectures.
- Proven ability to debug complex systems in production.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments where documentation is incomplete, and requirements evolve quickly.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to build trust with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience working directly with customers is a strong plus,
Our Tech Stack
- Backend: Node + TypeScript on Encore.dev. Event-driven design with message passing and queues. Hosted on GCP
- Database: PostgreSQL
- LLMs: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google for foundation models; fine-tuned models on Vertex AI
- Browser Automation: Playwright
- Frontend: Next.js + React + TypeScript. Hosted on Vercel
- Observability: Datadog for logging and metrics
The estimated salary range for this role is $160,000–$200,000, depending on experience and skill set. In addition to base salary, we offer competitive equity, benefits, and growth opportunities. Final compensation will be determined based on a combination of factors, including experience, qualifications, and location.
Our Benefits
We invest in our people the same way we invest in our product: seriously.
- Health, Vision, and Dental benefits
- ️ Flexible PTO
- ➕ Life Insurance and Accidental Insurance ❤️
- Short-Term Disability Coverage
- Generous salary and equity for all staff
- 401k option; helping you save for the future
- Paid parental leave to support growing families
- Yearly learning and development stipend
- Commuter benefits for Bay Area employees
- Uber ride stipend if you ever have to work late in the office
- Remote office home stipend to get you comfy in your space
- Daily catered lunches provided
- ✈️ Onboarding trip to San Francisco HQ if you work remotely
- Monthly happy hours Annual Company Offsites; our last one was in Palm Springs CA
Workplace Policy
We are an in-person company. Our offices in San Francisco and New York City are where ideas get built, decisions get made, and the team gets stronger. We have invested in making them genuinely great places to spend your day, with catered lunches, monthly happy hours, and people who care about the work and each other.
Most of our team works in office five days a week. For select roles, we hire remotely across the U.S. Remote employees come to San Francisco for their first week to onboard and meet the team, and we cover the full trip. Most remote employees visit once a year after that, with all travel, lodging, and meals on us.
Every role is different. Travel expectations are always shared upfront in the job description and confirmed in your first call with us. No surprises.
Equal Opportunity
Pallet is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We make all employment decisions based solely on merit. We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, disability status, or any other applicable legally protected characteristic. We prohibit any form of discrimination or harassment. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring.
Candidate Privacy Notice
Please review Pallet's Candidate Privacy Notice here.
Accommodations
Pallet complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as amended by the ADA Amendments Act, and all applicable state or local laws. We will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with a disability during the application process and throughout employment as required by law.
If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please contact us at recruiting@pallet.com.
About Pallet
Pallet is building AI Agents to transform logistics — a $12 trillion global industry. We've raised $50M from top investors, including General Catalyst, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Bain Capital Ventures. In under two years, we've achieved 700% revenue growth and are just getting started.
Our mission is to increase the efficiency of the global supply chain by automating the manual workflows that slow logistics teams down — from scheduling and appointment setting to data entry and load management. Our flagship platform provides end-to-end visibility, control, and optimization, while our newest product, CoPallet, introduces AI Agents that can understand and execute requests in real time, and integrate directly with customer systems.
As logistics providers look to generative AI to drive efficiency, many are turning to Pallet to lead the way. With deep industry expertise and cutting-edge AI capabilities, we're positioned to build the next $10B company in logistics.
Join us and work alongside leaders from Google, DoorDash, YC, and more to shape the future of logistics tech.
$160,000 - $200,000
Full-time / Onsite (5 days/week) / ~25% Travel
About The Role
We're hiring Forward Deployed Product Engineers to deploy production AI agents inside some of the world's largest logistics companies.
You'll work directly with customer operators, engineers, and executives to understand how critical workflows actually run. Then you'll design integrations, debug production systems, and ship AI-powered workflows into environments that are often undocumented, fragmented, and business-critical.
This role sits at the intersection of engineering, product, and customer operations. You'll own deployments from initial discovery through production launch. You'll spend time with customers, both remotely and onsite, solving complex operational problems and turning those solutions into reusable product capabilities.
Success in this role is measured by outcomes. Can you get systems live, make them reliable, and solve problems in environments you do not fully control?
Every deployment teaches us something new about how logistics companies operate. The patterns you uncover become product features. The problems you solve for one customer often become capabilities we ship across the platform.
This role is for you if
- You enjoy debugging messy real-world systems more than building pristine internal abstractions.
- You like working directly with customers and uncovering solutions in ambiguous environments.
- You move quickly, make pragmatic decisions, and optimize for outcomes over elegance.
- You want ownership of real business impact, not just tickets or isolated services.
- You enjoy being the person who figures things out when documentation is incomplete, and the answer isn't obvious.
This role is likely not for you if
- You're primarily interested in model research or pure ML experimentation.
- You prefer highly scoped platform work with limited customer interaction.
- You want detailed specifications before starting a project.
- You prefer remote-first environments or minimal travel.
What You'll Do
- Reverse engineer undocumented APIs, ERPs, TMS platforms, and internal tools with minimal guidance.
- Design and build integrations between customer systems and Pallet's AI platform.
- Debug production failures across distributed systems, authentication layers, data pipelines, and third-party services.
- Work onsite with customers to diagnose issues, ship fixes, and drive successful launches.
- Own customer deployments end-to-end, from technical discovery through production stability.
- Make pragmatic engineering tradeoffs under real-world constraints and tight timelines.
- Identify recurring implementation patterns and turn them into reusable product capabilities.
- Partner closely with engineering and product teams to shape the roadmap based on customer needs.
Who You Are
- 2–5 years of experience building and owning production systems in high-growth startups or similarly demanding environments.
- Strong experience working with APIs, integrations, authentication systems, and event-driven architectures.
- Proven ability to debug complex systems in production.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments where documentation is incomplete, and requirements evolve quickly.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to build trust with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience working directly with customers is a strong plus,
Our Tech Stack
- Backend: Node + TypeScript on Encore.dev. Event-driven design with message passing and queues. Hosted on GCP
- Database: PostgreSQL
- LLMs: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google for foundation models; fine-tuned models on Vertex AI
- Browser Automation: Playwright
- Frontend: Next.js + React + TypeScript. Hosted on Vercel
- Observability: Datadog for logging and metrics
The estimated salary range for this role is $160,000–$200,000, depending on experience and skill set. In addition to base salary, we offer competitive equity, benefits, and growth opportunities. Final compensation will be determined based on a combination of factors, including experience, qualifications, and location.
Our Benefits
We invest in our people the same way we invest in our product: seriously.
- Health, Vision, and Dental benefits
- ️ Flexible PTO
- ➕ Life Insurance and Accidental Insurance ❤️
- Short-Term Disability Coverage
- Generous salary and equity for all staff
- 401k option; helping you save for the future
- Paid parental leave to support growing families
- Yearly learning and development stipend
- Commuter benefits for Bay Area employees
- Uber ride stipend if you ever have to work late in the office
- Remote office home stipend to get you comfy in your space
- Daily catered lunches provided
- ✈️ Onboarding trip to San Francisco HQ if you work remotely
- Monthly happy hours Annual Company Offsites; our last one was in Palm Springs CA
Workplace Policy
We are an in-person company. Our offices in San Francisco and New York City are where ideas get built, decisions get made, and the team gets stronger. We have invested in making them genuinely great places to spend your day, with catered lunches, monthly happy hours, and people who care about the work and each other.
Most of our team works in office five days a week. For select roles, we hire remotely across the U.S. Remote employees come to San Francisco for their first week to onboard and meet the team, and we cover the full trip. Most remote employees visit once a year after that, with all travel, lodging, and meals on us.
Every role is different. Travel expectations are always shared upfront in the job description and confirmed in your first call with us. No surprises.
Equal Opportunity
Pallet is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We make all employment decisions based solely on merit. We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, disability status, or any other applicable legally protected characteristic. We prohibit any form of discrimination or harassment. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring.
Candidate Privacy Notice
Please review Pallet's Candidate Privacy Notice here.
Accommodations
Pallet complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as amended by the ADA Amendments Act, and all applicable state or local laws. We will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with a disability during the application process and throughout employment as required by law.
If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please contact us at recruiting@pallet.com.
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Entry Level Forward Deployed Software Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get an entry level forward deployed software engineer job?
Focus on demonstrating hands-on problem-solving: build projects that show you can work directly with customers and translate technical requirements into working software. Employers at this level look for strong communication skills alongside coding ability, since the role sits at the intersection of engineering and client work. Internship experience, open-source contributions, or a portfolio of deployed projects all give you a concrete edge over candidates with coursework alone.
Which companies hire entry level forward deployed software engineers?
Companies hiring entry level forward deployed software engineers right now include Deloitte, Palantir Technologies, and Boston Consulting, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of July 2026. Hiring at this level comes from a mix of enterprise software companies, AI and data platforms, and growth-stage startups that embed engineers directly with their customers.
Are there remote entry level forward deployed software engineer jobs?
Yes, though many postings require at least some on-site or travel component given the client-facing nature of the work. About 23% of entry level forward deployed software engineer openings are remote or hybrid as of July 2026, so options exist even if fully remote roles are less common at this level than in purely product-focused engineering tracks.
Are these new grad forward deployed software engineer jobs?
Yes, many of the roles listed here are new grad and junior positions that explicitly welcome recent graduates with zero to two years of experience. A posting is typically new-grad friendly when it lists a degree as the primary qualification, accepts internship experience in place of full-time history, or says a strong portfolio can substitute for a longer resume. These are the roles worth targeting first.
Which industries hire the most entry level forward deployed software engineers?
Entry Level forward deployed software engineer roles concentrate in Technology & Software, Consulting & Professional Services, and Accounting & Auditing, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of July 2026. These sectors hire heavily at the entry level because they rely on engineers who can work directly with enterprise clients to implement and customize complex software from day one.