# Forward Deployed Engineer

**Company:** [Wispr Flow](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/wispr-flow)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $180k – $350k/yr
**Skills:** APIs, Integrations, Identity Management, Data Integration, Production Software, Debugging, Software Deployment, Customer Environments
**Posted:** 2026-09-12

> Forward Deployed Engineers lead production deployments for customers, working across APIs, integrations, identity, data, and customer environments from discovery through adoption. The role requires customer-facing production software experience, broad technical depth, and strong communication.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead customer deployments from discovery through implementation, launch, and adoption.
- Build and debug across APIs, integrations, identity, data, and customer environments.
- Partner with customer engineering, IT, security, and business teams to ship production-grade deployments.
- Communicate clearly across technical and business audiences and solve problems in real time.
- Evaluate customer requests and push back thoughtfully when they will not produce the right outcome.
- Turn recurring customer needs into product improvements, reusable integrations, and stronger playbooks.
- Own delivery through launch and adoption.

## Requirements
- Experience shipping production software directly with customers.
- Ability to work across the stack and investigate unexpected system behavior.
- Clear communication across technical and business audiences.
- Ability to remain composed when requirements are incomplete or timelines are tight.
- Strong ownership through delivery and adoption.

## Nice-to-haves
- Prior experience in voice, machine learning, or specific customer technology stacks is not required.

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