Forward Deployed Engineer

Overview

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will be a trusted AI advisor to enterprise customers, translating complex AI concepts into business value. You’ll work with the AI Center of Excellence to identify high-value use cases, prototype rapidly, and guide customers from idea to adoption. Your role blends hands-on technical work with executive-facing storytelling to unlock measurable outcomes and expand SnapLogic’s footprint. This is a customer-facing, impact-driven position that thrives in ambiguity and cross-functional collaboration.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive salaries
• global wellness benefits

Responsibilities

• Identify high-value AI use case opportunities by understanding the customer’s business landscape
• Demonstrate iterative progress through rapid prototyping to show early value
• Lead executive-level briefings, translating AI concepts into business rationale, ROI, and risk considerations
• Support the account team in building compelling business cases and defining baseline KPIs
• Navigate enterprise stakeholder matrices to align engineers, managers, and C-suite around a shared vision
• Ask probing questions to reveal operational inefficiencies and friction
• Apply best practices in prompt engineering, LLM selection, tool design, and cost control
• Feed field learnings back to product teams to influence the roadmap
• Create playbooks and reusable deployment patterns for repeatable success
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of AI developments and clearly articulate capabilities to customers
• Evangelize SnapLogic capabilities including data, integration, MCP, and agentic workflow orchestration

Key requirements

• Experience in a customer-facing advisory role with enterprise customers
• Executive presence and ability to challenge assumptions with C-level stakeholders
• Proven track record of building working prototypes under ambiguity
• Experience with enterprise data and application integration
• Solid understanding of AI/LLM concepts, governance, model selection, and cost-to-performance trade-offs
• Awareness of AI governance and compliance considerations in deployment
• Strong communication skills for both technical and business discussions
• Collaborative mindset to coordinate across Pre-Sales, Post-Sales, Product, and Engineering
• Curiosity and empathy for how businesses operate

• Curiosity
• Empathy
• Executive presence
• Python
• JavaScript/Node.js
• LangChain

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