Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Responsibilities

Customer success

• Serve as the primary technical owner for customer engagements from initial discovery through production rollout
• Understand each customer's architecture, constraints, and definition of success, and drive toward that outcome
• Manage expectations, communicate risks clearly, and help customers navigate technical decisions with confidence

Technical integration

• Build the connectors, pipelines, and supporting tooling needed to make the platform work inside real enterprise environments
• Write production-quality code, troubleshoot issues, and implement fixes directly in active workstreams
• Work effectively within customer environments that have different stacks, infrastructure, and integration constraints

Product feedback loop

• Capture product feedback with precision, including logs, reproduction steps, and a clear proposed path forward
• Use customer engagements to identify product gaps, surface recurring patterns, and help improve the product roadmap
• Document technical decisions and tradeoffs clearly so product and engineering teams can extend the work

Workstream collaboration

• Partner closely with product and engineering teams to help turn field patterns into reusable product capabilities
• Contribute directly in focused workstreams by helping drive technical design, implementation, and delivery
• Make sound engineering decisions under pressure while building and iterating quickly

Engagement management

• Coordinate independently across internal teams and customer stakeholders to keep delivery moving
• Communicate clearly across technical, business, and executive audiences

Qualifications

Basic qualifications

• 5 - 8 years of engineering experience required
• Hands-on production engineering experience, including writing code, debugging failures, and implementing fixes directly
• Engineering experience in AI and agentic development
• Experience with developing and deploying software within enterprise environments
• Experience shipping production solutions at scale that customers relied on
• Experience building integrations across existing systems and infrastructure
• Strong troubleshooting and code review skills, including the ability to identify root causes and drive resolution
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 30% to customer sites as needed for on-site engagements, technical reviews, and presentations

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with LLMs, agent frameworks, or deploying AI systems in production
• Prior experience in an FDE or similar forward-deployed engineering role