Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

About the role

Accrete is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to lead complex technical deployments with strategic customers. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who can operate independently, manage complex technical ambiguity, and coordinate across teams to deliver customer outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own technical delivery across complex customer deployments from first prototype to stable production use.
• Own planning, staffing, prioritization, and delivery governance for forward deployed engineering engagements.
• Partner directly with customer engineering, technical, operational, and domain teams to understand workflows, constraints, and success criteria.
• Design and build full-stack systems, integrations, configurations, and deployment workflows that deliver measurable customer value.
• Write and review production-grade code across frontend, backend, data, and integration layers using Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, React, or comparable technologies.
• Configure and operationalize AI agents, retrieval workflows, data pipelines, and customer-specific system integrations.
• Scope technical work, sequence delivery, identify dependencies, and remove blockers early.
• Make practical tradeoffs across scope, speed, quality, security, and customer impact.
• Support production rollout, adoption, monitoring, troubleshooting, and iteration in customer environments.
• Translate field learnings into reusable tools, playbooks, implementation patterns, and technical building blocks for other deployments.
• Share structured feedback with Product, Engineering, and Research on where models, workflows, and platform capabilities succeed or need improvement.
• Collaborate with Deployment Strategy to connect business outcomes and technical execution.
• Coordinate with other technical contributors when deployments require cross-functional execution.

Requirements

• 5+ years of engineering, technical deployment, solutions architecture, or customer-facing technical delivery experience.
• Strong full-stack engineering experience, including building and shipping production web applications or enterprise systems.
• Proficiency with Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, React, or comparable modern engineering stacks.
• Experience scoping, designing, and delivering complex technical systems in fast-moving or ambiguous environments.
• Experience working directly with customers or end users to understand workflows, validate assumptions, and deliver practical solutions.
• Strong understanding of APIs, data integrations, system architecture, cloud or on-prem environments, and production operations.
• Experience building or deploying systems powered by LLMs, generative AI, machine learning models, retrieval systems, or data-intensive workflows.
• Ability to simplify complex problems, make sound technical decisions under pressure, and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong ownership mindset and ability to operate with limited oversight while keeping internal and customer teams aligned.
• Ability to lead broad technical functions through senior ICs, or cross-functional delivery teams.
• Strong communication skills and experience partnering with senior technical, and operational stakeholders.
• Ability to operate in ambiguous environments, make sound tradeoffs, and drive teams toward clear outcomes.
• Ability to identify risk early, adjust plans, and protect delivery outcomes without slowing progress.

Qualifications

• Experience deploying AI, LLM, knowledge graph, semantic search, or agentic workflow systems in production.
• Experience with enterprise security, compliance, identity, networking, data governance, or regulated deployment environments.
• Experience creating reusable deployment patterns, internal tools, technical playbooks, or implementation frameworks.
• Startup experience or experience working in high-growth, high-ambiguity environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience deploying AI, LLM, knowledge graph, semantic search, or agentic workflow systems in production.
• Experience with enterprise security, compliance, identity, networking, data governance, or regulated deployment environments.
• Experience creating reusable deployment patterns, internal tools, technical playbooks, or implementation frameworks.
• Startup experience or experience working in high-growth, high-ambiguity environments.

Benefits

Competitive Salary: Aligned with experience and market standards
Comprehensive Insurance: Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family
401(k) Plan: Build your financial future with our retirement savings plan
Flexible PTO & Hybrid Work: Take time off when needed and enjoy remote flexibility per company guidelines
Growth & Development: Access professional learning opportunities and career advancement support
Onsite Perks: Enjoy catered lunches, snacks, and a fully stocked kitchen
Team Bonding: Company-sponsored happy hours and social events to connect and unwind