Jobs · Engineering · California

Senior Forward-Deployed Engineer

AITOMATIC · Palo Alto, CA · 2 wk ago
EngineeringFull-time

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical discovery and translate customer workflows into cognitive ontologies, agent logic, and solution architectures.
  • Build production-ready components: pipelines, integrations, APIs, domain adapters, reasoning modules.
  • Guide customers through deploying, validating, and refining agentic applications using our platform.
  • Collaborate closely with product engineering to surface platform gaps and drive improvements.
  • Develop reusable patterns, templates, and deployment best practices that scale across customers.
  • Provide expert technical guidance during workshops, design sessions, and milestone checkpoints.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, ideally in customer-facing or solutions engineering roles.
  • Strong software engineering background (Python or TypeScript preferred).
  • Experience with distributed systems, data pipelines, APIs, and system integration.
  • Ability to communicate clearly with customer engineering and domain teams.
  • Comfortable working across multiple customer accounts with structured engagement cycles.
  • Familiarity with AI/ML, agent architectures, or semantic/ontology modeling is a plus.

Who You Are

A builder who enjoys solving real customer problems with real engineering. Equally strong at technical deep dives and customer-facing collaboration. Thrives in ambiguity and can convert domain complexity into clean technical solutions.

Pay

Attractive compensation and benefits commensurate with impact.

Schedule

Flexible working hours.

Benefits

  • Daily lunch allowance
  • Overseas travel opportunities for training and work, providing exposure to international projects and collaborations.
  • An employee-centric culture that values skills and abilities, providing the necessary tools and resources to excel and advance in careers.
  • A collaborative work environment that fosters teamwork, knowledge sharing, and innovation.

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