Forward-Deployed Engineer (FDE)

Overview

In this role you will quickly translate client needs into tangible AI concepts through demos, prototypes, and MVPs. You will collaborate with account teams to showcase AI opportunities and work with architects and ecosystem partners to ensure credible, scalable prototypes. You help accelerate sales by delivering credible proofs of value and reusable assets, while feeding knowledge back to the broader FDE community. This role combines hands-on engineering, AI fluency, and field presence to shape client solutions and drive opportunities.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible work options
• learning and development opportunities
• tailored benefits

Responsibilities

• Rapidly build demos, prototypes, PoCs, and MVPs to illustrate AI use cases for clients and account teams
• Translate client problems into working AI concepts using models, agents, data, workflows, APIs, integrations, and UX patterns
• Support discovery workshops, executive demos, technical deep dives, and value proof sessions
• Collaborate with Solution Architects to align prototypes with scalable architecture and security/operational requirements
• Engage with ecosystem partners to showcase capabilities across major AI models and cloud platforms
• Package prototypes into reusable assets, including scripts, collateral, setup guides, and reference architectures
• Validate feasibility, data dependencies, integration complexity, UX assumptions, and risks early in the sales cycle
• Contribute lessons learned and reusable implementations back to the global FDE knowledge base

Key requirements

• 5+ years in software/AI/ML/solution engineering or related hands-on roles
• 2+ years building or deploying AI/GenAI/LLM/RAG/agentic AI solutions
• Proficiency with Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, FastAPI, Flask, React, LangChain, LlamaIndex, PyTorch, TensorFlow or similar
• Experience integrating APIs, data sources, model providers, workflows, and cloud services into demos/prototypes
• Working knowledge of responsible AI, security, data handling, privacy, and enterprise deployment
• Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience
• Strong client empathy and communication
• Bias for action and collaboration
• Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly
• Python
• JavaScript/TypeScript
• FastAPI

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