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title: "Forward Deployed Engineer (Commerce)"
description: "Embed inside a commerce brand and ship AI into the production workflows where revenue moves, from merchandising to lifecycle to ops. Read the role and apply."
canonical: "https://www.pollyester.com/careers/forward-deployed-engineer-commerce"
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Forward Deployed Engineer

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# Forward Deployed Engineer

Commerce · Embedded inside the brand

[Apply with the work →](https://www.pollyester.com/careers/apply?role=forward-deployed-engineer-commerce)

## About the role

You embed inside a commerce brand and ship AI into the workflows where revenue actually happens. Their stack, their data, their team, their production.

AI that lives in a deck doesn't grow anything. It's the role the frontier labs are staffing hardest right now, and we've scoped it to one vertical, commerce, because that's the domain we live in.

## What you'll do

-   Embed with the brand's team and learn their operation from the inside: how an order actually flows, where decisions get made, where the data nobody has cleaned lives.
-   Ship AI into the production workflows where the money moves: merchandising, lifecycle, support, ops.
-   Own the work from the first conversation with their team to the moment it's running in their production.
-   Build in their stack and their data, not a sandbox.
-   Keep what you ship running, and instrument it so everyone can see what it did to their numbers.
-   Bring what you learn inside one brand back into how we build for the next.

## What you'll own

What ships. AI in the workflows where the money moves: merchandising, lifecycle, support, ops. You own it from the first conversation with their team to the moment it's running in their production, and it isn't done until it is.

## Who you are

-   You're a strong engineer who'd rather sit inside a real business than behind a backlog.
-   Ambiguity doesn't scare you, and neither do other people's messy systems.
-   You'd take one thing running in production over ten things demoed.

## Who this isn't for

If you want a clean codebase, a fixed roadmap, and no meetings with the client's ops lead, stay away from this one. Embedded means embedded.

## How we evaluate

By what's running in the brand's production and what it did to their numbers. Not by the demo.

## If this is your seat, show us the work.

Not a resume. One thing you made or moved that speaks to this role. We read every one, and we write back either way.

[Apply with the work →](https://www.pollyester.com/careers/apply?role=forward-deployed-engineer-commerce) [See the other roles →](https://www.pollyester.com/careers.md)

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