Head of Forward Deployment Engineering
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NebiusAI Infrastructure
You're welcome to work remotely from within the United States, with regular presence in New York City as needed.Full-TimeManager
Salary230,000 - 310,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- Required Skills
- PythonSoftware ArchitectureRESTful APIsDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience in customer-facing technical roles such as Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Architect, Solutions Engineer, or Sales Engineer.
- 4+ years building or leading customer-facing engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and organizational scaling.
- Strong hands-on engineering ability in Python, APIs, distributed systems, and modern software architecture.
- Deep experience designing and building production AI systems, including LLM applications, agentic workflows, retrieval architectures, evaluation systems, and the infrastructure required to operate them reliably at scale.
- Strong familiarity with the modern AI application stack, including agent orchestration frameworks, retrieval infrastructure, evaluation tooling, and production deployment patterns.
- Proven track record leading the technical side of enterprise engagements from initial architecture discussions through successful production deployment and expansion.
- Strong business and commercial judgment, with the ability to balance customer outcomes, engineering investment, and company priorities when making technical and organizational decisions.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills across executive, technical, and developer audiences.
- A builder's mindset with the ability to create structure, operating rhythms, and scalable playbooks in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the FDE organization's vision, operating model, execution playbooks, resourcing strategy, and quarterly priorities.
- Lead, mentor, and scale an existing team of Forward Deployed Engineers by raising the bar for hiring, technical excellence, execution, and customer impact.
- Own the technical strategy for Tavily's most strategic enterprise accounts, from discovery and solution design through POCs, production rollout, and expansion.
- Partner closely with Sales and Customer Success to shape technical strategy for strategic accounts, accelerate enterprise adoption, and drive expansion opportunities.
- Serve as the senior technical voice with executive stakeholders, including CTOs, VPs of Engineering, founders, and technical decision-makers.
- Stay hands-on by leading strategic customer engagements and building reference implementations, retrieval pipelines, agentic systems, production integrations, and technical prototypes on the Tavily API.
- Build scalable internal assets, including playbooks, demo environments, documentation, reference architectures, tooling, and reusable templates.
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