Forward Deployed Engineering Assoc Manager

Overview

In this role you embed with client teams to deploy and operationalize AI platforms in real enterprise environments. You own outcomes—time-to-value, reliability, adoption, and scalability—with business metrics attached. You translate platform capability into measurable business value, moving from problem to production quickly. You shape AI adoption strategies and create reusable patterns that the client can own after you leave. This is a hands-on, enterprise-focused role that drives impact across multiple industries and organizations.

Responsibilities

• Embed with client engineering and business teams to deploy and scale AI platforms inside enterprise environments
• Own production outcomes end-to-end with business metrics (time-to-value, reliability, adoption velocity, scalability)
• Prototype quickly and advance to production-ready systems
• Design and govern AI architectures across identity, data, security, governance, platform, and workflow integration
• Translate technical architecture into business impact for CTO/CFO/CISO; shape use case roadmaps and ROI backlogs
• Build reusable patterns, playbooks, and accelerators for client ownership after engagement
• Lead design workshops, proofs of concept, architecture walkthroughs, and code-with sessions with client teams
• Codify patterns and delivery learnings to scale across engagements and grow the FDE practice

Key requirements

• 3-5 years engineering experience with cloud-native systems (APIs, microservices, containerization, serverless)
• Minimum 1 year of deep expertise in designing and deploying agentic solutions in production
• Minimum 3 years of experience with AI platforms (OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, and open-source models) including multi-provider pipelines
• Minimum 10 years of experience deploying to production, CI/CD, infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm), monitoring, and debugging
• Proven end-to-end delivery ownership in client-embedded environments
• Proven ability to articulate business value in terms a CFO would recognize
• Experience presenting to and building trust with senior client stakeholders (CTO, CFO, CISO)
• Non-linear profiles welcomed; deployment experience and outcome ownership prioritized over CV patterns

• ability to work with cross-functional teams
• trust-building with senior stakeholders
• storytelling with data to show business impact
• cloud-native engineering
• agentic solutions (agents, orchestration, context engineering, RAG, workflows)
• AI platforms (OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI)

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