Forward Deployed Engineer

About Us:

At ResiQuant, we're tackling one of the biggest challenges in disaster resilience: the lack of accurate, standardized, and dynamic property data. In a world increasingly impacted by climate change and natural disasters like earthquakes, hurricanes, and wildfires, decisions about risk are often made with incomplete or incorrect information.

Our mission is to empower insurers, financial institutions, and asset managers with AI systems fused with structural engineering expertise. These systems bridge critical data gaps to deliver precise, actionable building insights for better decision-making.

Founded by Stanford PhDs, we are committed to leveraging cutting-edge AI to protect communities and businesses from disaster impacts. At ResiQuant, we're building a future where every organization has access to world-class property risk intelligence to drive resilience and safeguard what matters most.

About You:

You will be the technical bridge to enterprise insurance customers, owning the end-to-end journey from initial technical discovery through full product integration. As our first forward deployed engineer, you'll work directly with underwriters, executives, and engineering teams at top-tier insurance carriers to implement AI solutions that reshape how trillion-dollar portfolios assess wildfire, earthquake, and hurricane risks. Your work will directly impact how communities and businesses build resilience against escalating climate disasters.

You will get to:

• Travel extensively (weekly) to work on-site with large insurance companies across the US

• Shadow underwriters and risk managers to map complex workflows that have never been digitized

• Build custom integrations and automations that save customers millions in operational costs

• Present technical solutions to C-suite executives at top-tier insurance carriers

• Shape product direction by translating real customer needs into engineering roadmap priorities

• Become a recognized expert in the intersection of AI, structural engineering, and insurance technology

• Work directly with founders where your impact is immediately visible

Key Responsibilities

Technical Customer Discovery: Lead stakeholder workshops and shadow insurance professionals to map complex underwriting processes that have operated unchanged for decades

Solutions Architecture: Design and specify API integrations, data flows, and workflow automations tailored to each customer's internal systems and business requirements

Hands-on Implementation: Write code, build prototypes, and deploy integrations that connect ResiQuant's AI platform with customer systems

Customer Success Engineering: Onboard and train underwriters one-on-one, ensuring adoption across teams of users per customer

Internal Tooling Development: Build AI-powered automation tools to streamline your own workflow and scale the implementation process

Product Feedback Loop: Serve as the voice of the customer to our product and engineering teams, driving features that unlock substantial customer value

Qualifications:

1. 3-5 years of software engineering experience with strong foundation in APIs, system integrations, and full-stack development

2. Computer Science degree or equivalent technical background - ability to discuss technical architecture with customer engineering teams

3. Exceptional customer empathy and communication skills - can explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences from analysts to executives

4. Analytical problem-solving mindset - comfortable abstracting complex business processes into technical specifications

5. AI tool proficiency - experienced using modern AI tools for automation, prototyping, and productivity

6. Full commitment to travel and in-person work - willing to be on-site in San Francisco 5 days/week and travel to customer locations weekly

7. Startup intensity and ownership mentality - work is your #1 priority, comfortable with fast-paced, high-stakes environment

What Drives Us:

• Impact: We are driven by a shared mission to address a paramount challenge of our time

• Resolve: We believe that hard work and resilience yield extraordinary outcomes

• Urgency: We are motivated to outpace rapid urbanization and escalating disaster impacts

Why Join ResiQuant:

• Founding Impact: Opportunity to be a founding team member and architect the technical foundation of a company disrupting the $200B property insurance industry

• Technical Innovation: Build cutting-edge AI systems at the intersection of structural engineering, climate science, and financial risk

• Real-World Impact: Experience firsthand how your AI systems protect communities and businesses from disaster impacts

• Culture Building: Help establish the technical culture and engineering practices for a world-class AI company

Day to Day:

• Customer Technical Discovery: Lead stakeholder workshops at insurance carrier offices, shadowing underwriters and risk managers to map complex workflows and identify integration opportunities

• Solutions Architecture & Implementation: Design API integrations and data flows, then code custom solutions that connect ResiQuant's platform with customer systems

• On-site Customer Deployment: Travel to customer locations to conduct hands-on technical implementations, troubleshoot integration issues, and ensure successful go-lives

• User Training & Adoption: Run technical workshops and one-on-one training sessions with underwriters, ensuring teams of users successfully adopt and derive value from the platform

• Integration Project Management: Own end-to-end customer implementations from technical scoping through deployment, coordinating between customer IT teams and ResiQuant's engineering team

• Product Feedback & Innovation: Serve as the voice of the customer internally, translating real-world usage patterns and customer requests into product requirements and engineering priorities

• Technical Relationship Building: Develop trusted advisor relationships with customer executives, technical teams, and end users, becoming their go-to resource for platform optimization and expansion

• Internal Tooling Development: Build AI-powered automation tools to streamline your own workflow, create customer flowcharts faster, and scale the implementation process as the team grows

What We Offer:

• Competitive Compensation: Salary commensurate with experience and founding team equity

• Founding Team Equity: Significant equity stake as a founding member with substantial upside potential

• Premium Benefits: Comprehensive health insurance, 401(k) with company matching

• Innovation Environment: Vibrant tech startup culture with access to cutting-edge technology and research

• Mission-Driven Work: Opportunity to work on technology that makes a meaningful difference in disaster resilience