Forward Deployed Engineer
Location: New York, NY (Hybrid)
Pay: $180k - 220k Base + Equity No Sponsorship Offered
About the Role:
A fast-growing AI technology company is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to lead enterprise AI implementations from discovery through production deployment. This role combines client-facing consulting, technical solution design, and hands-on engineering to help large organizations successfully adopt AI-powered products and workflows. You will work directly with business leaders, data teams, IT organizations, and operational stakeholders to identify opportunities, design solutions, build integrations, and deploy production-ready systems. The ideal candidate enjoys translating ambiguous business challenges into working technical solutions and is comfortable owning initiatives from concept through launch. This is a highly visible role where you'll serve as the bridge between customers, product teams, and engineering while helping establish scalable implementation frameworks for future enterprise deployments.
Responsibilities:
Lead end-to-end technical delivery of enterprise AI implementations from discovery, solution design, development, deployment, and handoff. Partner with client stakeholders across business, analytics, engineering, IT, security, and operations teams to gather requirements and define successful outcomes. Design and build integrations, APIs, automations, workflows, and production applications that operate within customer environments. Develop implementation plans, manage cross-functional dependencies, and drive projects to completion despite evolving requirements. Establish best practices around reliability, security, monitoring, testing, documentation, and operational support. Communicate technical decisions, risks, progress updates, and implementation tradeoffs to both executive and technical audiences. Identify opportunities to transform client-specific solutions into scalable and repeatable deployment models.
Must Have
Qualifications:
5+ years of experience in a Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Architect, Technical Consultant, Technical Program Manager, Implementation Engineer, or similar client-facing technical delivery role. Strong hands-on software engineering experience with Python, Java Script/Type Script, APIs, integrations, and modern cloud-based applications. Experience delivering production software, AI applications, automation solutions, analytics platforms, or data products from concept through deployment. Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous business requirements into technical solutions, system designs, and executable project plans. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related technical field.
