Forward Deployed Engineer

$140,000–$185,000USRemoteToday

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About the job

Forward Deployed Engineer serving as the primary technical bridge between Nelnet’s GenAI delivery team and higher education and SLED institutions.

Summary written from the posting.

What you’ll do

Lead client technical discovery and scope GenAI use cases on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.
Build, prioritize, and maintain delivery backlogs across GCP/Gemini, data, and AgentOps engineering teams.
Validate delivered solutions against scoping acceptance criteria as the client-facing quality gate.
Surface education and public-sector compliance, governance, security, and technical risks.

What you’ll bring

Hands-on experience scoping and delivering GenAI or agentic AI solutions for enterprise or institutional clients.
Experience in a client-facing technical role delivering AI/ML solutions directly with enterprise or institutional clients.
Working familiarity with cloud data, compute, IAM, network security, and AI compliance concepts.
Ability to translate ambiguous client requirements into a structured, sequenced delivery backlog.

Technologies

Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform · Agent Builder · Model Garden · Workspace Studio · Gemini models · Google Cloud · AWS Bedrock · Azure AI Foundry · IAM · AgentOps

Pay and conditions

Posted pay: $140,000–$185,000
Pay details
Compensation Range for this role: $140,000-$185,000 based on experience
Location: US
Work arrangement: Remote

The work, as we read it

Kind of work: Plans what the customer deploys first

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How this compares

The middle of this range is $163,000, below the $196,000 median for the 1,766 US FDE postings that state one. Half of those sit between $162,000 and $230,000.

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