Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
$190,000–$240,000 year
RemoteUnited States
United StatesRemoteFull Time$190,000–$240,000 yearSenior LevelMedium
Full TimeSenior LevelMedium
Job Summary
Embed with cross-functional teams to map current workflows, identify bottlenecks in manual effort, and prioritize high-impact opportunities for AI integration. Build and ship production-ready, AI-powered workflows that solve specific business problems, then scale proven solutions into reusable capabilities across the organization. Own outcomes by measuring success through revenue generated, cost saved, cycle time reduced, and manual work eliminated. Translate between technical and business stakeholders to deliver measurable results while treating discovery as core engineering work.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong hands-on coding skills and experience delivering production systems across complex codebases
- Strong Python, plus backend or fullstack depth in one or more of: Node.js, Kotlin, Java, Go, React, TypeScript, or mobile
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD workflows, and SQL
- Working knowledge of LLMs and agentic patterns: prompt engineering, tool use, RAG and retrieval, context management, evaluation and observability, and agent orchestration with frameworks like MCP, LangChain, or similar
- The ability to get productive fast in codebases and domains you have never worked in
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills. You partner across technical and business teams, translate between them, and produce docs and findings that both engineers and non-technical stakeholders can act on
Desired Qualifications
- Experience extracting structure from unstructured data (transcripts, documents, conversations) with LLMs
- Familiarity with workflow automation tooling (n8n, Zapier, Temporal, or similar)
- Familiarity with process mining or workflow analysis (event logs, process discovery, BPMN)
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