Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
Position Summary & Responsibilities
Afresh, the AI platform for grocery, began by tackling the most complex problem in the industry: fresh, and has evolved into the core AI platform for grocers.
By leveraging proprietary AI designed for high-volatility environments, we empower partners like Albertsons, Meijer, and Wakefern to drive smarter decisions across their entire enterprise.
Following record-breaking 70% revenue growth in 2025, we have scaled to 6 enterprise-grade solutions, with solutions live in over 10% of the U.S. grocery market. Our platform now orchestrates billions of decisions from the store floor to the distribution center and prevented over 200 million pounds of food waste last year alone.
If you're looking for a role where your work directly translates into massive scale and social good, and you want to be part of the team that defines how the world eats, there is no better time to join us.
Location: San Francisco, CA (hybrid, 3 days/week onsite preferred) or Remote in approved U.S. states.
Why This Is a Founding Role
Grocery is overdue for better software. Afresh has the industry expertise, data, and technology to build it.
We’ve created a dedicated team to turn those advantages into products that replace manual work and help grocers make faster, better decisions.
- You'll be one of our first dedicated FDEs. How you run your deployments becomes the playbook for the FDEs who come after you.
- You and a Deployment Strategist own a customer together. Nobody hands you a spec. You work out what the problem is, decide what to build and what to skip, ship it, and own whether it worked.
- It’s a co-founder lead team, alongside engineers who have built AI companies and shipped products at Meta, Google, and OpenAI.
- We measure on outcomes. On one deployment, setting up a new product went from four hours of manual work to minutes.
- The team is growing fast and you get to help determine the shape of it.
About the Role
Afresh's AI already runs fresh ordering and inventory for many of the largest grocers in the US. Now we're applying that foundation to more of the business—building workflows and applications that automate manual work, surface the right information at the right time, and help teams make better decisions.
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Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights
Assessing alignment with fresh food supply chain complexities, predictive data modeling capabilities, and mission-driven passion for reducing food waste.
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