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SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring FDEs

SalesPatriot (YC W25), an AI-native supply-chain platform for aerospace, electronics, industrial, and defense sectors, is hiring Field Deployment Engineers (FDEs) to work onsite with customers and at its San Francisco HQ. The company has raised $10M+ from investors including Paul Graham, SV Angel, Pear VC, and CRV, and reports 7-figure ARR transacting ~$50M weekly through its system.

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SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring FDEs
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The Mission

America's industrial base runs on systems built in the 1980s.

Billions of dollars in critical components (F-35 parts, industrial assemblies, electronics, bolts, and hoses) still move through email threads, excel sheets, and disconnected ERPs.

We're replacing that with an AI-native platform that makes aerospace, electronics, industrial, and defense supply-chain operations nearly autonomous. Faster quoting. Faster procurement. Full visibility. Real operational intelligence for the companies our nation depends on.

Quick Facts

  • YC W25 company. Top 5% growth in batch
  • Raised $10M+ from investors including Paul Graham, SV Angel, Pear VC, and CRV
  • Team of 20 co-live in our Warsaw & SF Hacker Houses
  • 7 figure ARR transacting ~$50M a week through our system

The Job

  • Go. Fly out and plant yourself inside the customer's operation. Weekdays are onsite (Wisconsin, New York, Miami, Los Angeles); weekends we regroup at the SF HQ to debrief and keep building.
  • Understand. Map how the company actually operates, from sales and supply chain teams to executives and CEOs. Learn the breakpoints choking their growth and speed.
  • Implement. Configure automations within SP Studio tooling so the platform accurately reflects the customer's needs. Build trust and confidence in SalesPatriot.
  • Iterate. Take full ownership of the customer's outcome. Keep finding and killing their most pressing problems, leading org-wide scaling, until SalesPatriot is the operating system their business runs on.

What We’re Looking For

  • Ready to relocate full-time to San Francisco. This is not a remote role.
  • Absolute grinder. Interested in co-living (though not required).
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change.
  • Track record of shipping fast.
  • Full-stack beyond code: comfortable jumping between frontend, backend, and organizational politics — earning trust with procurement specialists while navigating executive priorities and IT constraints.
  • Motivated by taking an unknown problem, sinking your teeth in, and coming up with a plan of attack.
  • Proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript, and at least one frontend library (React, Svelte, Next etc).
  • Be ready to show us at least one full-stack project you've shipped (GitHub repo / web app / Loom demo video).
  • Knowledge of SQL databases, preferably Postgres.
  • Personable: clients trust you, like you, and look forward to your updates. You handle the conversation and the code.
  • Low ego, curiosity, and intellectual honesty — focused on outcomes, not "being right."

The Process

Call with engineer → 1hr technical test → Call with founder → fly out to SF HQ (on us) → offer.

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