Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering
Core
Lead a team of Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) to deliver strategic enterprise AI deployments, ensuring predictable delivery, strong engineering quality, and fast unblocking in complex environments.
Role type
Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering (IC + Delivery Leadership)
Builds
Enterprise AI deployments, integrations across systems and APIs, scalable field engineering practices
Domain
Enterprise AI / Agentic AI / Customer Experience
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Software engineering leadership, capacity planning, project delivery management, technical architecture review, hands-on debugging, operational planning, customer-facing technical communication
Preferred skills
AI/LLM system integration, agent workflows, orchestration, vector databases, guardrails
Technologies
Typescript, NodeJS, OpenAI, Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, MCP
Responsibilities
Hire, coach, and grow a team of FDEs; allocate engineers across parallel strategic projects; drive engineering delivery milestones and risk management; implement time tracking and delivery visibility; guide architecture and unblock high-severity production issues; build reusable patterns and playbooks; translate customer needs into productization proposals; partner with customer engineering teams.
Seniority
Manager, hands-on IC with team leadership
