Viam
Director, Forward Deployed Engineering
$225K–$300K
New York, NY +1 · Director · Full-time · Posted Aug 20, 2026
- Location
- New York, NY
New York, New York, United States - Experience
- Experience managing engineers who deploy software in customer environments; no years specified.
About the job
Leads a team of forward deployed engineers and owns the technical approach for customer deployments, driving them into production and translating field learnings into platform priorities.
What you'll do
- Manage, coach, hire, and resource a team of five engineers across strategic accounts.
- Set deployment architecture and priorities, and serve as the senior technical partner to customer leaders.
- Drive deployments to production and share field learnings with Product and Engineering.
What they ask for
- Experience managing engineers who deploy software in customer environments.
- Deep systems experience; able to review designs, read code, and quickly learn an unfamiliar platform.
- Judgment across systems integration, SDKs, and edge/cloud architectures, including unreliable networks and hardware.
- Track record with enterprise customers and experience building structure in bespoke environments.
Pay
$225,000 - $300,000 /year (base salary)
Tools
SDKs
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