Forward Deployed Engineer (Entry-Level / Early Career)

Job Description:

  • Chestnut is building the first AI-native operating system for insurance distribution by transforming how the $1T+ insurance industry allocates its largest spend: sales and distribution.
  • We’re replacing legacy systems with a modern, flexible platform that helps carriers automate complex workflows, optimize every distribution dollar, and unlock new growth.
  • Recent advances in agentic AI make it possible to automate what was once manual and error-prone.
  • We operate with the belief that small, high-context teams working with best-in-class tools can achieve outsized results.
  • If you’re excited to modernize the infrastructure of one of America’s most essential industries, we’d love to meet you.
  • We’re building the modern infrastructure for AI-driven insurance operations with well-structured data models, real-time event pipelines, clean APIs, and usable tools.
  • As a Software Engineer at Chestnut, you’ll join a high-agency, cross-functional team focused on delivering impactful features fast.

Requirements:

  • 0–2 years experience, with solid coding fundamentals (Python, Go, or TypeScript ideal)
  • Curious, resourceful, and biased toward action—you’re not afraid to figure things out
  • Interest in applied AI—whether it’s workflow automation, data enrichment, or retrieval-augmented generation
  • Strong communicator who wants to understand both the tech and the business
  • Comfortable with ambiguity, eager to learn from others, and motivated to own real problems
  • Willingness to travel up to 25% for high-leverage, in-person work
  • Bonus: experience with LLMs, open-source AI tools, or side projects that shipped

Benefits:

  • Competitive salary and equity, with 10 year exercise window for stock options
  • Remote-first culture built on trust, autonomy, and high performance
  • Team offsites for all of us to bond
  • Take what you need vacation policy
  • Top notch health, dental, and vision insurance subsidized by us
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