Forward Deployed Engineer

Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Wed, May 27, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

To support enterprise customers, the full-time remote Forward Deployed Engineer will design and ship production RAG systems, manage retrieval evaluation, and lead a distributed team while embedding with customer engineering teams.

Key responsibilities
  • Design and implement production RAG systems, including chunking strategies and query rewriting
  • Own end-to-end retrieval evaluation, defining golden sets and building evaluation pipelines to drive quality improvements
  • Technically lead a distributed team, mentoring engineers and ensuring customer outcomes are met
Required qualifications
  • 7+ years of engineering experience with at least 2 years in shipping production RAG systems at scale
  • Strong proficiency in Python and production experience on at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Hands-on experience with agent frameworks such as LangGraph, AutoGen, or equivalent
  • Demonstrated ability to establish trust in customer-facing roles, particularly in architecture reviews
  • Experience leading engineering teams and managing customer relationships effectively

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