# Forward Deployed Engineer, NY

**Company:** [Encord](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/encord)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Python, data integrations, APIs, System Design, Software Engineering
**Posted:** 2026-05-18

> Forward Deployed Engineer who owns technical deployments of the Encord AI data platform into strategic customer environments. Designs, builds, and ships data integrations and solutions for complex ML pipelines while managing direct client relationships and feeding insights back to the product roadmap. Requires 3-8 years software engineering experience with strong system design and autonomy.

## Job Description

## What you'll do
- Design and ship high-quality, production-grade code that integrates Encord into customers' most complex data and ML pipelines.
- Own system design decisions for customer deployments, balancing correctness, scalability, and speed.
- Work directly with clients' engineering teams to diagnose problems, scope solutions, and ship fixes end-to-end.
- Build data integrations and technical solutions that support customer onboarding, adoption, and scale at pace.
- Communicate technical plans and tradeoffs clearly to both engineering counterparts and non-technical stakeholders.
- Operate with a high degree of autonomy: identify the right problem to solve, decide how to solve it, and see it through with minimal oversight.
- Collaborate with product and engineering to feed customer insights back into the roadmap.
- Help define and scale the Forward Deployed function as an early team member.

## Who we're looking for
- A strong software engineer with excellent system design instincts and a track record of shipping high-quality code, frequently and reliably.
- An excellent problem-solver who can take an ambiguous customer situation, break it down, and design a technical solution from scratch.
- A great communicator who is motivated by building customer relationships and solving customer problems.
- Entrepreneurial and autonomous mind, energized by ambiguity and competing technical priorities, and able to manage client relationships and technical delivery without close supervision.
- Ambitious and hardworking, with a track record of top-percentile performance in whatever environment you've been in, whether engineering, academia, business, or sport.

## Experience requirements
- 3–8 years in a software engineering role; Python is a big plus.
- Experience building or working with data integrations and APIs.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to thrive in ambiguity and take ownership without being told what to do.
- Prior experience at a high-growth startup is a plus.

## Why Encord
- Competitive salary, commission, and meaningful equity in a high-growth startup.
- Clear, accelerated growth opportunities as the company scales rapidly.
- Strong in-person culture: 4–5 days/week in our newly launched office.
- Flexible PTO to fully recharge.
- 18 paid vacation days in the U.S. plus federal holidays.
- Annual learning & development budget.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.
- Frequent travel opportunities across the U.S., London, and Europe.
- Bi-annual company offsites, twice-weekly team lunches, and monthly socials.

## Similar roles

- [Specialist Solutions Architect](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/ffde0e93-1ef8-4055-822a-a572314a136f) - Databricks - Remote - $180k – $248k/yr
- [Forward Deployed Data Scientist](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/bfb182cc-acb1-4def-9ee1-e900c75d34fb) - Sift - Seattle, WA - $170k – $230k/yr
- [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/4298684f-b97d-4818-9516-7de6f8d3b50f) - Broccoli AI - San Francisco, CA
- [Clinical Solutions Architect](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/769a9d65-2a2f-4fbe-bbe3-46a7f75849f9) - Anterior - Remote
- [Technical Solutions Strategist](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/30a4f860-5e9d-4a12-b416-388b938d5fe0) - Nash - Remote

**Apply:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/9c1f5747-6990-4ac8-a3f5-24d3ca696625
**Canonical:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/9c1f5747-6990-4ac8-a3f5-24d3ca696625