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# Forward Deployed Engineer

- **Company:** Gradall Industries LLC
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Salary:** $130,000.0 - $210,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, TypeScript, Workflow Management Systems, Enterprise Software Applications, Large Language Models, AI Platforms
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/forward-deployed-engineer-gradial-8804929

## About the Role

* 1+ years of software engineering or technical implementation experience, ideally in customer-facing contexts.
 * Proficiency in programming languages such as TypeScript or similar, with a strong understanding of APIs and systems integration.
 * Ability to rapidly understand unfamiliar enterprise software architectures (CMS, DAM, workflow tools) and build integration paths.
 * Excellent communication skills. Confident translating for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
 * High ownership mindset with comfort operating independently, navigating ambiguity.
 * Willingness to travel occasionally (<10%) for customer discovery, deployment and relationship building.

Nice to Have

 * Experience working with enterprise customers; particularly in content, marketing or digital operations.
 * Familiarity with LLMs, generative AI pipelines and agent-style automation frameworks.

## Description

We're hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to lead implementations of our AI platform directly with customers. This role is ideal for a technically fluent builder who thrives at the intersection of engineering and problem solving; someone who wants to be hands-on with code while shaping how some of the world's most recognizable brands modernize their content operations.

As an FDE, you'll own full-stack development for enterprise deployments, working side-by-side with customers to map complex workflows into scalable generative systems. You'll move between discovery, prototyping, implementation, and post-launch optimization - translating real-world pain points into elegant technical solutions.

What You'll Own

 * Lead technical discovery and implementation for new enterprise customers, translating nuanced business processes into robust AI-native solutions.
 * Build, deploy and optimize features that integrate customer systems with Gradial's LLM driven platform.
 * Develop reusable tools, adapters and configuration layers to support scalable enterprise onboarding.
 * Collaborate with customer stakeholders (mainly within marketing, operations and engineering) to define requirements, surface edge cases and iterate in real time.
 * Work closely with Gradial's product and engineer teams to incorporate learnings from the field into our core roadmap.
 * Contribute to internal technical documentation and implementation playbooks that accelerate future deployments.
 * Own performance, reliability and maintainability for the solutions you ship, from backend architecture to customer UX., * Learn quickly, actively seek out new challenges, and regularly reconsider "how it's always been done."
 * Want to have real impact with zero bureaucracy.
 * Have an innate drive for being 1% better than the day before, building towards greatness.
 * Embrace AI as a core tool for problem-solving, innovation, and scale.
 * Show customer-obsession (internal or external), high ownership/accountability, and bias for action.
 * Communicate clearly, directly, with curiosity, and assuming good intentions.
 * Thrive in fast-paced, hyper-growth environments where building better > maintaining status quo.


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