Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
Deploy and operationalize AI reliability, guardrail, evaluation, and observability products within complex enterprise environments. The role partners directly with customer engineering and governance teams and requires strong software engineering, production debugging, Kubernetes, API, platform engineering, and enterprise integration experience.
About the job
Responsibilities
Solve Real-World Enterprise Problems
- Debug and troubleshoot complex deployment and integration challenges across customer environments.
- Navigate ambiguity and adapt solutions to real-world operational and regulatory requirements.
- Learn and work across enterprise systems used in regulated industries.
- Balance technical excellence with pragmatism, reliability, security, and customer operational realities.
Deploy and Operationalize AI Systems
- Work directly with customer engineering and platform teams to deploy Dynamo AI products into enterprise environments.
- Design and implement integrations across enterprise AI workflows, APIs, infrastructure, and governance systems.
- Help customers operationalize AI guardrails, evaluations, observability, and monitoring capabilities in production.
- Support deployment architectures across cloud, hybrid, and enterprise environments.
Bridge Product, Engineering, and Customer Needs
- Translate customer deployment challenges into actionable feedback for product and engineering teams.
- Surface deployment patterns and learnings that improve the platform and implementation playbooks.
- Work cross-functionally with research, engineering, product, and go-to-market teams.
- Contribute to scalable deployment methodologies and technical best practices.
- Assist with building releases, executing deployments, and resolving SaaS platform issues when needed.
Partner Closely with Customers
- Work with engineering, infrastructure, security, risk, compliance, and operations stakeholders.
- Understand customer technical environments, operational requirements, and deployment constraints.
- Help customers navigate AI governance, evaluation, and approval workflows.
- Partner with customer success managers and forward deployed strategists to streamline deployment and operational processes.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering experience, especially with distributed systems, Kubernetes, APIs, platform engineering, and enterprise integrations.
- Experience debugging and operating production systems in customer-facing environments.
- Ability to navigate complex technical and organizational environments independently.
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
- Enjoyment of direct customer engagement and practical engineering problem-solving.
- Ability to learn new technologies, systems, and infrastructure domains rapidly.
- Ability to communicate effectively with engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
Nice-to-Haves
- Familiarity with generative AI systems, LLM applications, AI infrastructure, or model deployment workflows.
- Experience in financial services, healthcare, government, or other regulated industries.
- Familiarity with enterprise security, governance, compliance, or risk management workflows.
- Experience with AI evaluation, guardrails, observability, or monitoring systems.
Compensation and Benefits
- The role involves helping enterprises deploy AI systems that are reliable, secure, observable, scalable, and production-ready.
- Work spans practical deployment challenges, enterprise architectures, governance models, and operational workflows across regulated industries.
Skills
Distributed Systems, Kubernetes, APIs, Platform Engineering, Enterprise Integrations, Generative AI, Llm Applications, AI Infrastructure, Model Deployment, Enterprise Security, Ai Governance, Ai Evaluation, Ai Guardrails, Observability, Monitoring
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