Forward Deployed Engineer
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Based in the United StatesFull-TimeSenior
Salary169,000 - 214,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Required Skills
- PythonSoftware Engineering
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with a strong track record of delivering production-grade systems.
- Extensive experience building with LLM APIs, agent frameworks, RAG pipelines, or other applied AI systems in production.
- Strong proficiency in Python or similar backend/scripting languages used in data-intensive environments.
- Proven ability to integrate with complex enterprise systems, including undocumented APIs, legacy infrastructure, and inconsistent data schemas.
- Experience working directly with external enterprise customers in a consulting, solutions engineering, or customer-facing engineering role.
- Strong understanding of retail, e-commerce, or supply chain systems and workflows.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical insights into actionable recommendations for both customers and internal teams.
- Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments with evolving requirements and minimal structure.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to balance hands-on coding with stakeholder collaboration.
- Prior experience in embedded engineering, professional services, or early-stage startup environments is highly valued.
Responsibilities
- Embed directly with enterprise retail and CPG customers to understand their technical ecosystems, data infrastructure, and operational workflows.
- Design, build, and deploy AI and agentic solutions tailored to customer-specific environments and constraints.
- Integrate and extend core platform capabilities into complex, often undocumented or heterogeneous enterprise systems.
- Serve as the primary technical point of contact during implementation and deployment engagements.
- Collaborate closely with internal R&D teams to surface product gaps, share field insights, and influence platform development.
- Partner with solution architects to translate customer requirements into scalable, production-ready technical solutions.
- Troubleshoot and resolve integration challenges across APIs, legacy systems, and enterprise data pipelines.
- Facilitate technical discussions with customer stakeholders while maintaining hands-on engineering ownership.
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