Lead Forward Deployed Engineer
AI summary of the role
Lead Forward Deployed Engineers (FDE) are the most senior technical leaders in the FDE organization, owning the overall technical strategy for the domain and setting direction across multiple concurrent engagements.
What you’ll do
- Own the FDE organization's overall engagement strategy and serve as the primary technical escalation point across the portfolio.
- Act as the trusted technical counterpart to customer executives and internal VP/executive stakeholders on strategic bets and major risks.
- Set technical architecture standards and design principles for the FDE domain, turning ambiguity into multi-quarter technical strategy.
- Stay hands-on writing and reviewing code, unblocking the hardest technical failures.
What you’ll bring
- 10+ years of relevant engineering experience with hands-on technical leadership in production systems and complex enterprise environments.
- Demonstrated success setting technical strategy at an organizational level.
- Proven experience designing and directing production-grade integrations, platforms, or distributed systems across multiple concurrent engagements.
- Excellent technical judgment under high ambiguity with accountability for organization-level tradeoffs.
Technologies
LLM · agent frameworks · retrieval · evaluation · AI systems · distributed systems · production systems · platforms · integrations
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