Forward Deployment Engineer
Core
Technical bridge between product and customer deployments, owning implementations from requirements to production integrations and monitoring.
Role type
Senior IC Forward Deployment Engineer (AI/LLM)
Builds
Production integrations, workflows, data flows, and monitoring for AI communications products.
Domain
AI communications, LLM applications, cloud infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
LLM application development, API integration, cloud deployment, observability, debugging, requirements translation
Preferred skills
Voice/telephony integrations, TypeScript, Python, SQL, workflow automation, privacy considerations
Technologies
APIs, webhooks, LLMs, RAG, TypeScript, Python, SQL
Responsibilities
Translate customer requirements into production implementations, configure workflows and data flows, build third-party integrations, debug production issues, create deployment playbooks, share product gap recommendations
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
