FieldGuide
Head of Deployed Engineering
$240K–$390K
San Francisco, CA or Remote (USA) · Remote · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of leadership experience in forward deployed, deployment, solutions or customer engineering.
About the job
Leads customer deployments of AI agents and software for audit firms, initially writing production code and solving technical problems while building and scaling the forward deployed engineering team.
What you'll do
- Own technical delivery for enterprise customer deployments, from scoping through production, including single-tenant and government-cloud environments.
- Build agents, integrations and tools; advise senior customer stakeholders on AI agents in their practice.
- Hire and coach engineers, create repeatable deployment playbooks and tools, and turn customer learnings into reusable product features.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of leadership experience in forward deployed, deployment, solutions or customer engineering.
- Recent production software development experience and willingness to continue hands-on coding.
- Experience leading or mentoring engineers and building a team from an early stage.
- Comfort with senior enterprise stakeholders, especially in regulated or complex environments.
Nice to have
- Experience at a Big 4 or major consulting firm; knowledge of audit, accounting, risk or compliance.
- Experience deploying LLM or agent-based systems in production.
Pay
$240K – $390K USD base salary
Tools
Excel
AI focus
Build and deploy AI agents for audit workflows, including producing verifiable citations from dense Excel workbooks; advise customers on how agents fit their practice.
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