Forward Deployed Engineer
Core
Technical lead for customer engagements connecting customer environments with product and engineering teams to deliver technical proofs of value from discovery through production deployment.
Role type
Senior IC forward-deployed engineer (solutions architecture & customer delivery)
Builds
Technical proofs of value, reference architectures, and production deployments for enterprise customers
Domain
Enterprise AI infrastructure, data systems, LLMs, and agentic systems
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Solutions architecture, deployment strategy, customer-facing data and AI delivery, modern data stacks (warehouses, ETL/ELT), data governance, LLM or agentic systems, Python, SQL
Preferred skills
Knowledge graphs, semantic layers, ontologies, entity resolution, regulated or air-gapped environments, European markets, early-stage companies
Responsibilities
Lead customer discovery to understand data architectures and business needs, scope and deliver proofs of value, run product demonstrations and guide architecture discussions, develop pre-sales materials and reference architectures, translate customer requirements into product feedback, partner with ML and infrastructure teams to deliver deployments
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
