Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, AI

Role Overview

What You Will Do

• Embed with functional departments to discover workflows and pain points.
• Scope, design, and build full-stack custom applications from prototype to production.
• Own architecture, development, testing, deployment, training, and handoff.
• Use AI coding tools to compress build cycles and iterate with stakeholders in near real time.
• Make and communicate trade-offs among scope, speed, and quality.
• Partner with IT, Security, and Data teams on security, compliance, and supportability.
• Create reusable patterns, components, and playbooks from engagements.
• Share field learnings with platform, product, and data teams.
• Measure success through adoption and business impact.

Required Experience and Skills

• Five or more years of professional software engineering experience and independent full-stack application delivery.
• Proficiency in at least one modern backend language such as Python, Node.js, JavaScript, or a comparable language.
• Enough frontend ability to build usable internal tools without dedicated design or frontend support.
• Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants and LLM-based tools.
• Working understanding of APIs, webhooks, data structures, and integration patterns.
• Experience working directly with nontechnical stakeholders on ambiguous requests and delivered solutions.
• Ability to work autonomously across shifting priorities and problem spaces.
• Strong communication skills for explaining technical trade-offs to executives and engineers.

Preferred Experience

• Forward-deployed, solutions engineering, professional services, or startup generalist experience is preferred.
• Exposure to enterprise security, compliance, or data governance requirements is preferred.

Benefits

• Benefits include equity programs, flexible time off, paid holidays and sick time, parental and grandparent leave, insurance, retirement matching, and flexible spending accounts.
• Additional benefits include home office allowance, mobile phone reimbursement, wellness support, fertility coverage, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement.