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Reporting directly to the Product Lead and working closely with our VP of Sales and Engineering team, we are looking for a deeply technical Forward Deployed Engineer to operate at the intersection of our customers and our platform.
Today, the role is centered on joining customer conversations early, developing a deep understanding of the platform, evaluating technical feasibility, and helping customers and our internal teams reason through architecture and implementation tradeoffs. You will prototype, build, and debug when hands-on work is the fastest way to reach an answer.
As the platform evolves, the role will grow into more complex customer deployments involving work units, company-specific context, integrations, evaluation, fine-tuning, and optimization. You will help define how we approach these problems and turn early solutions into technical patterns that can scale., * ?Lead technical discovery and solution design in early customer conversations alongside the Product Lead and VP of Sales.
- Evaluate feasibility and tradeoffs across architecture, APIs, integrations, data, authentication, security, infrastructure, and deployment.
- Prototype, build, and debug technical solutions, working closely with our engineering team to turn promising approaches into reliable implementations.
- Own technical problems end to end, developing a deep understanding of both the platform and the environments in which it must operate., Accepted file types: doc, docx, pdf, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, Max. file size: 25 MB.
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Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in software engineering, forward deployed engineering, customer engineering, or a similarly technical customer facing role.
- Strong software-engineering and systems-design fundamentals, with the ability to write, debug, and review production-quality code.
- Deep experience with APIs, integrations, data systems, cloud infrastructure, and modern application architecture.
- Strong production experience in Python and/or TypeScript, with the ability to build and debug across a modern application stack.
- Proficiency with SQL, APIs, integrations, authentication, cloud infrastructure, and production observability.
- Hands-on experience building AI-powered applications, including working with model APIs, context management, tool calling, retrieval, evaluation, and cost-quality-latency tradeoffs.
- The ability to move between system architecture, detailed implementation, and direct technical conversations with customers.
- Strong communication skills and the credibility to work directly with customer engineers, internal engineers, and business stakeholders.
- Exceptional agency and comfort operating in a lean, fast-moving environment where the solution is not always immediately apparent.
Benefits & conditions
- Help build the next generation of AI infrastructure powering enterprise innovation.
- Own technical decisions and work directly with customers on high-impact AI deployments.
- Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and rapid career growth in a fast-scaling startup.
- Fully remote with regular opportunities to collaborate with an exceptional team in Brooklyn, NY., This direct hire position offers a salary of $196,000-$212,000 annually. They offer a robust benefits package that includes comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, along with additional perks.
About the company
Scion Technology has been engaged to conduct a search for an experienced Forward Deployed Engineer for our client, an applied research and technology company focused on intelligence, decision-making, and complex systems. This is a full-time position based in New York City. This role is fully remote within the U.S. with up to 30% travel., Scion Staffing is a national award-winning staffing firm! Since 2006, we have had the pleasure of successfully placing thousands of talented professionals with amazing career opportunities. Through our innovative team building and recruiting solutions, we bridge the gap in executive leadership searches, direct hire recruiting, interim leadership placement, and temporary professional staffing. We are proud to be part of the Forbes lists of the Best Recruitment Firms and the Best Executive Search Firms in America. Additionally, Scion has been recognized as a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing firm as well as a top recruitment firm by The Business Times. Additional information about our firm can also be found online.
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