Senior Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
AI summary of the role
Senior Staff Forward Deployed Engineer serving as the primary technical bridge between strategic Fortune 500 customers and Alation's Product and Engineering teams.
What you’ll do
- Architect and rapidly prototype LLM-based, multi-agent, and agentic workflow systems
- Embed with Fortune 500 stakeholders to translate data and governance challenges into technical roadmaps
- Build BI and ML pipelines that produce measurable business value from cataloged data
- Define scalable solution patterns, accelerators, and reusable FDE tooling
What you’ll bring
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including customer-facing technical leadership
- Hands-on experience with LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, vector databases, RAG, and enterprise ML fine-tuning
- Track record delivering large-scale BI and data pipeline solutions using SQL and cloud warehousing
- Architectural fluency across distributed systems, data governance, metadata management, and compliance-grade platforms
Technologies
LangChain · AutoGen · CrewAI · vector databases · RAG · SQL · cloud warehousing · Alation Knowledge Layer
About Alation
AI-powered data intelligence platform helping enterprises find, understand, and trust data for analytics, governance, and AI readiness
Private Late · 500–1000 people
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