Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Role overview Own client engagements from initial discovery through close, combining relationship management with technical delivery. Depending on specialization, the work may focus on building AI-enabled systems for engineering and IT teams, or on helping a business function adopt AI through role-specific enablement and workflow automation. In either path, you are responsible for making decisions, delivering usable solutions, and leaving behind capabilities clients can maintain.

Responsibilities - Lead discovery, stakeholder interviews, and architecture reviews; turn unclear needs into scoped, deliverable work. - Own the client relationship and make technical and delivery decisions suited to the client’s environment. - Build and deliver solutions, manage scope, and raise risks or expansion opportunities early. - Leave documented, maintainable software or automations that continue to work after the engagement ends. - Contribute reusable patterns, templates, and components from client work to the wider practice. - Communicate precisely with engineers and confidently with senior business leaders.

Requirements - 5+ years of engineering or technical delivery experience, including substantial embedded or client-facing work. - Evidence of independently owning a client relationship from kickoff through completion. - Hands-on depth in at least one area such as LLM applications, cloud-native architecture, large-scale backend systems, or enterprise automation. - Ability to make independent technical decisions and maintain delivery quality in client environments. - Strong communication skills and comfort working through ambiguity before every requirement is settled.

Nice to have - Production AI experience, such as retrieval-augmented generation, agents, fine-tuned models, or LLM applications; familiarity with model tools and prompt design. - Consulting, systems integration, professional services, or statement-of-work delivery experience; relevant cloud certifications. - For operational engagements: experience with business process consulting, AI enablement for nontechnical teams, workflow automation, or enterprise systems.

Benefits and work setup - Medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, flexible spending account, and retirement plan with a company match up to 4% and immediate vesting. - Phantom equity, equipment and learning stipends, unlimited paid time off, and 10 paid holidays. - Travel may reach 50% depending on business needs. Base salary is listed as $136,000–$216,000, with possible additional incentives.