Forward Deployed Engineer (Implementation Engineering)
Core
Embedded engineer designing and building AI-native automation on the Harness platform for enterprise customers' software delivery lifecycles.
Role type
Senior IC forward-deployed implementation engineer
Builds
Production agent-driven automation pipelines, integrations, and reusable patterns for customer CI/CD and security workflows
Domain
AI software delivery, DevOps, and cloud infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Hands-on coding and scripting, API integration, event-driven systems, LLM and agent orchestration, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, security, observability, cost management
Preferred skills
Experience in forward-deployed or embedded consulting roles, ability to work with ambiguity
Technologies
Harness AI Agents, CI/CD frameworks, ITSM tooling, security systems, cloud infrastructure
Responsibilities
Embed inside customer engineering teams to design and build agent-driven automation, write production code connecting Harness AI Agents to customer systems, prototype and ship incrementally, transition customers to steady-state operation, provide feedback to product teams
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
