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# Forward Deployed Engineer

- **Company:** GRANICA LLC
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $160,000.0 - $220,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Cloud Computing, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Performance Tuning, SQL Databases, Enterprise Data Management, Apache Spark, Software Troubleshooting, Data Lakes
- **Published:** August 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=1b81da1bad5bee76

## About the Role

* 5+ years in Forward Deployed Engineering, Sales Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Data Engineering, or a similar technical customer-facing role
 * Deep hands-on expertise with Apache Spark, including debugging, performance tuning, cluster behavior, and production workloads
 * Strong knowledge of modern data platforms, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure
 * Experience with lakehouse technologies such as Iceberg, Delta Lake, or comparable systems
 * Proficiency in SQL and at least one programming language
 * Experience leading enterprise technical evaluations, proofs of concept, or deployments
 * Strong troubleshooting and customer communication skills
 * High ownership and comfort operating in a fast-moving startup
 * Ability to travel to customer locations when required

## Description

Granica is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer / Sales Engineer to lead technical engagements with enterprise customers from initial discovery through evaluation and deployment.

You will work directly with data platform teams, engineers, architects, and technical executives to understand their environments, identify high-value use cases, design proofs of value, and demonstrate measurable technical and economic impact.

This is a hands-on role for someone who can operate across customer engineering, technical sales, product, and engineering.

What You'll Do

 * Lead technical discovery with enterprise data, infrastructure, and AI teams
 * Understand customer architecture, workloads, constraints, and business priorities
 * Design and execute proofs of value with clear success criteria
 * Deploy and configure Granica in complex customer environments
 * Analyze data-platform performance, reliability, and infrastructure costs
 * Troubleshoot issues across data, compute, permissions, networking, and integrations
 * Partner with Account Executives throughout complex enterprise sales cycles
 * Present technical findings and business value to engineering and executive stakeholders
 * Translate customer feedback into product and engineering priorities
 * Build repeatable technical playbooks and evaluation frameworks, * Partner directly with customers, company leadership, Product, and Engineering
 * Help define Granica's technical GTM motion and Forward Deployed Engineering function
 * Join an early-stage team solving high-value infrastructure problems at massive scale
 * Have direct influence on product direction, customer outcomes, and company growth


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