Forward Deployment Engineer
Listed on 2026-09-12
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Software Development
AI Engineer (Applied/Software)
Embed with customer teams to turn high-value AI workflow opportunities into adopted, measurable production systems.
Remote / Hybrid
Full-time
Role OverviewThe Forward Deployment Engineer is a hands-on AI integrator who works close to customer teams, operators, and internal engineering to identify high-value workflow opportunities, build practical agentic AI solutions, and convert successful field experiments into reusable deployment patterns.
What You'll Do- Embed with customer teams to identify, prioritize, and accelerate high-value AI workflow opportunities
- Build and integrate agentic AI workflows across investigations, reporting, operational analysis, customer operations, and internal tooling
- Replace manually intensive workflows with scalable, reusable AI-enabled solutions
- Partner with product, AI engineering, security, and customer stakeholders to move from prototype to production
- Create reusable workflow patterns, templates, implementation notes, and lightweight operational playbooks
- Drive hands-on adoption and enable customer teams on approved AI tools and operating patterns
- Track adoption metrics, operational KPIs, hours saved, quality improvements, and failure modes
- Share field learnings with the broader engineering team so one deployment improves the next
- Experience building or integrating AI, automation, data, cloud, or operational workflow systems
- Strong systems thinking and ability to find leverage inside messy real-world processes
- Comfort working directly with customer teams, operators, and technical stakeholders
- Ability to prototype quickly while keeping security, governance, and reliability in view
- Production-oriented mindset across evaluation, monitoring, failure handling, and adoption
- Clear written communication and ability to turn field work into reusable playbooks
- Bonus:
Experience with LLMs, RAG, agentic systems, AWS AI services, Python tooling, or operational analytics
Outcome-driven
Solutions that run in production
Agentic by design
Systems that reason and act safely
Enterprise-first
Security, governance, scale
Small teams, high ownership
Direct impact on outcomes
What You'll Get- Hands-on ownership of customer-facing AI deployments
- Exposure to real operational problems where AI needs to produce measurable outcomes
- Collaboration across product, AI engineering, security, delivery, and customer teams
- Flexible work setup where applicable
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Context + fit
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Field workflow discussion
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Cross-functional interview
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Final conversation
Alignment + offer
We value clear problem-solving and production readiness over theoretical perfection.
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