Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
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AI-powered marketing content and operations platform.
Maintainer signals as of 8/29/2026
Seattle, WA, USA
About Gradial
Gradial (gradial.com) is a Seattle-based AI-powered marketing operations platform automating content management and campaign workflows for enterprise marketing teams.
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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead customer discovery and enterprise implementations while translating complex workflows into scalable AI systems. You will build integrations and reusable tools, collaborate with customer stakeholders, document implementation practices, and own the performance and reliability of the solutions you deliver.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering or technical implementation experience
- Experience with TypeScript or similar programming languages
- Strong understanding of APIs and systems integration
- Ability to understand unfamiliar enterprise software architectures
- Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience working with enterprise customers
- Experience with LLMs generative AI pipelines and agent-style automation frameworks
- Willingness to travel occasionally under 10%
- Ability to work five days per week in the Seattle office
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship
Responsibilities
- Lead technical discovery and enterprise implementations
- Translate business processes into AI-native solutions
- Build deploy and optimize customer integrations
- Develop reusable tools adapters and configuration layers
- Collaborate with customer stakeholders to define requirements
- Document technical solutions and implementation playbooks
- Own solution performance reliability and maintainability
Benefits
- Performance-based annual bonus
- Meaningful equity awards
- Medical dental and vision insurance
- Fertility and family-planning support
- 401k plan
- Unlimited paid time off
- Flexible work hours
- Seattle office gym sauna and bike parking
- Free lunch three days per week
