{"slug": "salespatriot-yc-w25-is-hiring-fdes", "title": "SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring FDEs", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "**The Mission**\n\nAmerica's industrial base runs on systems built in the 1980s.\n\nBillions of dollars in critical components (F-35 parts, industrial assemblies, electronics, bolts, and hoses) still move through email threads, excel sheets, and disconnected ERPs.\n\nWe'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.\n\n**Quick Facts**\n\n- YC W25 company. Top 5% growth in batch\n- Raised $10M+ from investors including Paul Graham, SV Angel, Pear VC, and CRV\n- Team of 20 co-live in our Warsaw & SF Hacker Houses\n- 7 figure ARR transacting ~$50M a week through our system\n\n### The Job\n\n- 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.\n- 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.\n- Implement. Configure automations within SP Studio tooling so the platform accurately reflects the customer's needs. Build trust and confidence in SalesPatriot.\n- 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.\n\n### What We’re Looking For\n\n- Ready to relocate full-time to San Francisco.\n**This is not a remote role.**\n- Absolute grinder. Interested in co-living (though not required).\n- Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change.\n- Track record of shipping fast.\n- Full-stack beyond code: comfortable jumping between frontend, backend, and organizational politics — earning trust with procurement specialists while navigating executive priorities and IT constraints.\n- Motivated by taking an unknown problem, sinking your teeth in, and coming up with a plan of attack.\n- Proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript, and at least one frontend library (React, Svelte, Next etc).\n- Be ready to show us at least one full-stack project you've shipped (GitHub repo / web app / Loom demo video).\n- Knowledge of SQL databases, preferably Postgres.\n- Personable: clients trust you, like you, and look forward to your updates. You handle the conversation and the code.\n- Low ego, curiosity, and intellectual honesty — focused on outcomes, not \"being right.\"\n\n**The Process**\n\nCall with engineer → 1hr technical test → Call with founder → fly out to SF HQ (on us) → offer.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/salespatriot-yc-w25-is-hiring-fdes", "canonical_source": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/salespatriot/jobs/M46X6YX-forward-deployed-engineer", "published_at": "2026-07-29 21:01:01+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-29 21:03:02.787798+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-startups", "ai-products", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["SalesPatriot", "YC W25", "Paul Graham", "SV Angel", "Pear VC", "CRV"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/salespatriot-yc-w25-is-hiring-fdes", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/salespatriot-yc-w25-is-hiring-fdes.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/salespatriot-yc-w25-is-hiring-fdes.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/salespatriot-yc-w25-is-hiring-fdes.jsonld"}}