Forward Deployed Engineer II (AI Production Systems)

About the role

A Forward Deployed Engineer II (FDE II) embeds directly inside a strategic enterprise customer to independently design, build, deploy and run AI-powered production systems alongside the customer's engineering team. FDE IIs write production-grade software and own delivery of complete AI workstreams end-to-end, from requirements gathering through production deployment. The role requires 30-50% travel.

Key responsibilities

• Embed within customer engineering teams, understanding the customer's business processes, technical architecture and operational constraints, and translating requirements into technical designs for AI-enabled production systems.
• Design and develop production-grade software for AI and agentic workflows, including retrieval pipelines, workflow automation, API orchestration layers and data integration, optimizing for latency, reliability and cost.
• Own production for the workstream: contribute to scoping, design, code, testing, deployment, operations and maintenance, troubleshoot production incidents, implement monitoring, evaluations, guardrails and CI/CD.
• Mentor and train new team members, and coach others on high-quality code through code reviews.
• Identify opportunities to expand AI adoption within the customer engagement and codify reusable patterns and accelerators.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or a related field.
• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years in an Agile, startup or rapidly scaling environment.
• Experience communicating technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Preferred: experience in customer production environments, building or deploying AI/ML applications in production, and a background as a founder, engineering lead or startup builder.

Required skills

• Agentic and spec-driven development (developing AI agents is a plus).
• AI tools: evaluation frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines and prompt engineering.
• Preferred: React, TypeScript, Python and/or Go, and AWS services.

What we offer

• Base salary of $143,700-$194,400 in Seattle, plus sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).
• Health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off and parental leave.