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Principal Forward Deployment Engineer

Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Thu, Aug 13, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

As a remote Principal Forward Deployment Engineer, the successful candidate will lead high-stakes customer engagements by translating AI ambitions into production architectures, managing technical and business value outcomes, and growing a team capable of delivering scalable and secure AI deployments.

Key responsibilities
  • Run technical discovery workshops and own scoping for AI deployments with clear acceptance criteria
  • Translate complex AI and data concepts into architecture proposals for CxO-level stakeholders
  • Design solutions across various AI sources and architect agent orchestration for production environments
Required qualifications
  • 15+ years of engineering or technical delivery experience, including 2+ years managing customer-facing engineers
  • 7+ years as a Solutions Architect, Principal SE, or similar role in a data platform, AI, or enterprise SaaS company
  • Proven track record of building and shipping production AI applications
  • Strong AI/ML literacy, including knowledge of LLM capabilities and agent architectures
  • Experience with modern data stacks and hands-on enterprise data integration

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