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Forward Deployed Engineer
US - San Fransisco +1 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Jun 16, 2026
- Location
- US - San Fransisco
US - Remote - Experience
- 8+ years across data engineering, software engineering, solutions engineering, or forward deployed engineering.
About the job
Embeds with enterprise customers to build and deploy data and AI solutions, from demos and prototypes to production systems, while feeding customer insights into product development.
What you'll do
- Own customer technical relationships from initial planning through production deployment.
- Build demos, proofs of concept, and production solutions using customer data, including semantic layers, analytics, GenAI applications, and agent-facing data products.
- Present solutions to technical and executive stakeholders and share field insights with Product and Engineering.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of hands-on experience across data engineering, software engineering, solutions engineering, or forward deployed engineering.
- Deep data engineering experience building and operating pipelines and ingestion systems at scale, with knowledge of modern data architectures, lakehouse, open table formats, and Iceberg.
- Experience with semantic layers, data modeling, data cataloging, or knowledge and context graphs.
- Hands-on experience with Generative AI, including LLM applications, agents, RAG, text-to-SQL, and AI-powered workflows over enterprise data.
Nice to have
- Founding or building something from scratch.
- Prior forward deployed engineering experience.
Tools
Iceberg, Generative AI, LLM applications, agents, RAG, text-to-SQL
AI focus
Build GenAI applications, agents, RAG, text-to-SQL, AI-powered workflows over enterprise data, and agent-facing data products.
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