Forward Deployed Engineer

Office Location: Lower Manhattan, NY (4 days per week in the office) Accrete is a dual-use AI software company that licenses its Knowledge Engine Platform and Expert AI Agents to government and enterprise clients. The platform creates a unified semantic representation of an organization’s ground truth—capturing tacit domain knowledge, understanding contextual relevance, and connecting information silos—enabling expert agents to reason across complex data and support high-stakes decisions with confidence. From national security to commercial use cases, Accrete delivers mission-critical decision intelligence and automation on a single platform. About the Role Accrete is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to lead complex technical deployments with strategic customers. In this role, you will own the technical path from discovery and scoping through system design, hands-on build, integration, rollout, and production stabilization. You will work directly with customer engineering teams, operational users, and domain stakeholders to understand their workflows and translate them into working AI-powered systems. You will write and review production-grade code, make architecture decisions, troubleshoot deployment challenges, and help customers adopt what you build. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who can operate independently, manage complex technical ambigu [... source excerpt omitted ...] ality, and the field feedback you provide to improve Accrete’s product and model roadmap. Travel up to 50% may be required. What You’ll Do Own technical delivery across complex customer deployments from first prototype to stable production use. Own planning, staffing, prioritization, and delivery governance for forward deployed engineering engagements. Partner directly with customer engineering, technical, operational, and domain teams to understand workflows, constraints, and success criteria. Design and build full-stack systems, integrations, configurations, and deployment workflows that deliver measurable customer value. Write and review production-grade code across fro [... source excerpt omitted ...] egration layers using Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, React, or comparable technologies. Configure and operationalize AI agents, retrieval workflows, data pipelines, and customer-specific system integrations. Scope technical work, sequence delivery, identify dependencies, and remove blockers early. Make practical tradeoffs across scope, speed, quality, security, and customer impact. Support production rollout, adoption, monitoring, troubleshooting, and iteration in customer environments. Translate field learnings into reusable tools, playbooks, implementation patterns, and technical building blocks for other deployments. Share structured feedback with Product, Engi