Director, Forward Deployed Engineering
Core
Lead delivery for Fortune 500 customers by embedding elite engineers to ship deeply integrated AI agents and production systems.
Role type
Director of Forward Deployed Engineering
Builds
Deeply integrated AI agents, backend services, data systems, and cloud infrastructure for enterprise clients.
Domain
Enterprise Generative AI and Applied AI
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Leading high-performing customer-facing engineering teams, scaling delivery organizations, hands-on fluency with LLMs and agent systems, backend and API design, data systems management, cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes, navigating enterprise security and compliance, translating field work into reusable platform capabilities, cross-functional leadership.
Preferred skills
Experience deploying AI into complex enterprise environments, track record of turning field work into product leverage, strong cross-functional alignment.
Technologies
Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, IaC tooling.
Responsibilities
Own end-to-end delivery for strategic enterprise accounts, hire and develop a world-class Forward Deployed Engineering team, provide holistic technical oversight of agents and infrastructure, partner with Product and Platform to codify reusable capabilities, engage directly with customer leadership, enforce production excellence and reliability, drive feedback loops into product roadmap.
Seniority
Director, hands-on IC with team leadership