Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

Skills

About the Role

You will lead complex end-to-end deployments of frontier models alongside strategic customers, owning discovery, scoping, system design, build and production rollout. You will embed with customer teams, write production code, and share field feedback with Research and Product. The role is hybrid in New York with up to 50% travel.

Requirements

• 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience including customer-facing work
• Scoped and delivered complex systems in ambiguous environments
• Production-grade code across frontend and backend using Python, JavaScript or comparable stacks
• Built or deployed LLM or generative model systems
• Clear communication with engineers, product teams and customers

Responsibilities

• Own technical delivery across multiple deployments from prototype to production
• Build full-stack systems that deliver customer value
• Embed with customer teams and guide adoption
• Scope work, sequence delivery, and remove blockers
• Make trade-offs between scope, speed and quality
• Contribute directly in code
• Codify working patterns into tools, playbooks or building blocks
• Share field feedback with Research and Product

Benefits

• Equity
• Performance-related bonus
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Health Savings Account employer contributions
• Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
• 401(k) with employer match
• Paid parental leave
• Paid medical and caregiver leave
• Flexible PTO
• 13+ paid company holidays
• Mental health and wellness support
• Employer-paid life and disability coverage
• Learning and development stipend
• Daily meals in offices
• Relocation assistance
• Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends