Forward Deployed Engineer - Mission Platform
⛰️ About Northslope
The generational companies of the next century will run on mission-specific AI software that compounds their competitive advantage, not commoditized SaaS. We purpose-build production AI applications that enable our customers to operate at the speed, scale, and margins of an enterprise software company, in any industry.
We're building something fundamentally different: software that's as adaptable as the businesses it serves, created by engineers who understand both code and customer.
🛠️ The Role
As part of the small and fast-growing Operations function at Northslope, you'll build the software, automation, and systems that power the foundational infrastructure keeping the company running as we scale to 200+ employees. This is a hybrid role: half operational problem-solving across real business domains, half writing code to automate, streamline, and eliminate manual work. You won't follow standard playbooks or rely on "how things are usually done." You'll identify operational bottlenecks, then build the tools and automation to solve them.
Day to day, you'll tackle a wide range of operational domains: equity plan and cap table administration, fundraising operations, international entity setup, IT security and tooling, recruiting systems and vendor management, multi-jurisdictional employment and benefits compliance, government procurement, and more. But instead of just managing these processes manually, you'll write Python scripts to automate repetitive workflows, build internal tools and apps that make the team faster, leverage AI and LLM capabilities to handle operational complexity at scale, and explore how Palantir Foundry and AIP can be applied to internal operations challenges. You'll be the person who sees a manual, error-prone process and turns it into a reliable, automated system.
This role requires someone who is equally comfortable digging into equity administration or international entity formation as they are writing a Python sc...