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.