Forward Deployed Engineer

Overview

Forward Deployed Engineer role working with Sales, Engineering and Service Delivery teams to drive complex end-to-end deployments of frontier models and agentic solutions for customers, from discovery and scoping through production rollout.

What you'll do

• Explore and ideate opportunities in GTM teams to drive and scale the adoption of agentic solutions, complex data models, and intricate workflows
• Map out the sales journey and create an end-to-end blueprint to identify opportunities for AI and agentic ways of working
• Enhance sales productivity through smart and personalized approach to workflow automation
• Own technical delivery across multiple deployments from prototype to stable production
• Build full-stack systems that deliver customer value and sharpen how we learn
• Have architectural bent of mind, innovative thinking, real-time creation and demo of potential solutions, and knowledge of business workflows and industry solutions
• Embed closely with account teams, understand their needs, and guide adoption of what you build
• Scope work, sequence delivery, and remove blockers early
• Make trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality; adjust plans to protect delivery
• Codify working patterns into tools, playbooks, or building blocks that others can use
• Hands-on-keyboard: over 60% of your work will involve coding and agent development and deployment
• Share field feedback that helps Research and Product understand where the models succeed and where they can improve
• Keep teams moving through clarity and follow-through
• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders and decision-makers to drive customer success and satisfaction
• Put on consulting hat during stakeholder engagements and drive full stack thinking around both business and technology levers
• Design and propose fit-for-purpose agentic solutions for clients based on your research and their needs
• Prepare demonstrations and proof of concept environments based on client requirements
• Provide general support to the team on new products and technology in the market

What you'll need

• 5+ years of experience working within Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Azure/AWS
• Professional level certification in GCP
• 7+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience that includes customer- or internal stakeholder-facing work
• Scope and deliver complex systems in fast-moving or ambiguous environments
• Expertise in production-grade code across frontend and backend using Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks
• Have built or deployed systems powered by LLMs or generative models and understand how model behaviour affects product experience
• Drive solutions from ambiguity to simplicity in a fast paced environment within tight deadlines
• Strong communication, clarity of thoughts, full-stack approach, and leadership to drive critical decisions with engineers, product teams, and customer stakeholders
• Comfortable working at all levels of leadership, including CXOs
• Foresight, risk management, and runtime adjustments without impacting customer experience

Nice to have

• Experience strategizing, designing, architecting, and leading the deployment of scalable solutions on GCP (strongly preferred)
• FDE training and certification
• Experience with LLM systems preferably in Google stack or Anthropic

Details

• Location: Bangalore