Forward Deployed Engineer - Applied AI

We are looking for a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to lead product development on some of the most strategically important initiatives at Wonderschool.

You’ll spend your time working directly with customers (traveling as needed), uncovering pain points, and building AI-powered solutions that drive measurable impact across revenue, operational efficiency, and user experience.

You’ll act like a founder inside the company: identifying problems, shipping code, driving adoption, and iterating quickly based on what you learn.

This role blends engineering, product, operations, and business leadership, and is ideal for someone who has launched products, acquired users, and driven growth independently.

You will work closely with our sales, onboarding, and account management teams to automate workflows, build better customer experiences, and unlock new growth.

This role is inspired by best-in-class FDSEs at companies like Palantir and is perfect for builders who love solving real-world problems in the field, not from behind a desk.

What You’ll Do Work directly with users and internal teams to identify high-leverage problems and ship product solutions.

Write production code (approximately 50% of your time) and ship weekly improvements across the customer journey.

Use tools like Widesurf, Cursor, and other AI accelerators to increase your velocity and quality of output.

Build and deploy AI-powered tooling that eliminates manual effort and improves the experience for providers, parents, and government partners.

Automate onboarding flows, proposal generation, reporting processes, and other operational workflows.

Own full loops: talk to users, design solutions, write code, test, deploy, and monitor adoption.

Prioritize based on business impact and collaborate across teams to drive measurable results.

What Success Looks Like You uncover user pain points faster than anyone else and consistently ship solutions that address them.

You deploy AI-infused internal tools or product experiences that improve core metrics (conversion, retention, revenue).

You fully own feedback loops, from discovery to deployment, and iterate rapidly.

Internal teams rely on your tools to operate faster and with fewer resources.

You’re moving fast, staying close to the customer, and operating with very little hand-holding.

Who You Are A builder and founder at heart, you’ve started a company, built products that got users, or made revenue independently.