Forward Deployed Engineer - India
Core
Embed directly with customer teams to own outcomes, ship production-grade SpaceXSI systems, and serve as the technical feedback loop from the field back to product engineering.
Role type
Senior IC forward-deployed AI solutions engineer
Builds
Production agents, AI applications, and coding-agent workflows on Grok and SpaceXSI models for live business processes
Domain
Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Software Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
software engineering, machine learning engineering, data science, customer outcome ownership, AI-native workflows, agent development, production debugging
Preferred skills
customer-facing role experience, agents and tool-calling, eval harnesses, retrieval and context systems, CI/CD, AI-native coding workflows, forward-deployed engineer experience
Technologies
Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Grok, Colossus, MCP servers
Responsibilities
Lead discovery with customers to define use cases and success metrics; Design and ship production agents and AI applications on live business processes; Get first versions live quickly and harden them with rollout and iteration; Own production quality including tracing, evals, and debugging; Build systems around the model and integrate into customer auth and delivery systems; Measure outcomes like revenue, cost, and error rates; Work with Staff+ and domain leaders; Leave customers able to run built systems and turn learnings into reusable patterns
