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Forward Deployed Engineer, Early Career

Endeavor

Chicago

Applied AI

$120K โ€“ $140K

Posted 4 months ago

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Verified open on Oct 30, 2026 ยท posted 115 days ago

Job Description

Endeavor is real-world enterprise AI.

AI models are improving faster than most companies can put them to work. Endeavor closes that gap.

We exist to secure American industrial leadership. AI is the largest advantage available to the companies that make, move, and defend things in this country, and most of them can't reach it alone. We close that distance โ€” so their customers pay less, their people do work worth doing, and the companies themselves come out stronger than the competition abroad.

To do that, we build custom AI systems for companies in mission-critical industries โ€” manufacturing, distribution, supply chain, defense, life sciences. Not software they rent from a vendor that doesn't understand their business. Systems they own, built inside their own stack, in production in weeks.


Operating Principles

  • One team, one fight. Small companies fail for a hundred reasons. Being internally misaligned shouldn't be one of them. We think like owners of the whole business โ€” the question is always how we win. We're fighting the world, not each other.

  • Strong convictions, loosely held. Show up with a point of view and hold that view loosely enough that better evidence can move it. The best ideas come from candor and debate.

  • Default to open. Our clients trust us with their hardest problems and we extend that same trust internally. Information here is open by default โ€” data, context, the reasoning behind decisions โ€” because you can't own an outcome you can only see half of.

The Role | Forward Deployed Engineer

Forward Deployed Engineers work side by side with our customers, rapidly understanding their toughest issues; architecting and building solutions that leverage business-critical data and the latest advancements in AI to solve them. As a FDE, your contributions will have a direct impact on our customersโ€™ missions and the real world. Youโ€™ll work in small, agile teams and own the end-to-end execution and implementation of high-stakes projects.

What We Require

  • High agency, slope, and chaos ceiling with strong first principles thinking, outcome orientation, and resiliency.

  • Engineering background, preferred in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, and Data Science.

  • Proficiency with one or more programming languages, such as Python, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript, or similar.

  • Must be graduating in 2026 or before.

  • Ability to travel.

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