> Markdown version of [/jobs/ext/3380798-senior-forward-deployed-engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/jobs/ext/3380798-senior-forward-deployed-engineer). Every page supports `.md` or `Accept: text/markdown`. Links point to the HTML versions so they work for humans too. Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Forward Deployed Engineer - **Company:** Synthesia - **Location:** Berlin, Germany (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** €130,000.0 - **Contract:** Temporary contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence - **Published:** September 29, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=77c08d284865a6ad ## About the Role * Rapid learner. You pick up new tools, APIs, and customer contexts quickly - and you enjoy the discomfort of operating at the edge of what you know. * Customer instinct. You naturally ask "what problem are they actually trying to solve?" before writing a line of code. * Commercially aware. You understand that speed of delivery is a form of value. You make tradeoffs that a product engineer might not - and you own the consequences. * Communicator. You can run a technical deep-dive with an enterprise architect in the morning and explain your approach to a CPO in the afternoon., * Experience building and shipping working software - the form it took matters less than the fact you've owned something end-to-end. * Comfort working across the stack or with APIs and integrations to deliver solutions quickly. * Some exposure to customer or commercial contexts - whether that's a startup, an agency, a consulting role, or a side project with real users. * Familiarity with how enterprise customers think about technical integrations and vendor solutions. * Experience using AI tools to accelerate your output (we expect this to be part of how you work, not a bonus)., * Tech Recruiter Interview (30-40min) - Technical background, previous experience, and what you're looking for * Delivery and Impact Interview (60min) - Deep dive into your past projects, impact, and ways of working ## Description * Work directly with Synthesia's most strategic customers and partners to design and build bespoke technical solutions that unlock high-value use cases on their behalf. * Own the full build cycle for custom engagements: from scoping and architecture through to delivery, with a bias toward speed and impact over broad reusability. * Bridge technical and business stakeholders - equally fluent in conversations with engineers and architects as with senior decision-makers on the customer or partner side. * Translate ambiguous customer requirements into working prototypes and production-grade solutions in tight timelines. * Partner with internal product and engineering teams to feed real-world customer needs back into the product roadmap. * Identify patterns across customer engagements and help define where bespoke builds should become platform features. * Represent Synthesia's technical capabilities confidently and credibly in customer meetings, workshops, and discovery sessions., * You've led three or more end-to-end custom engagements for strategic customers, from scoping call to working deployment. * You've built a reputation internally as the person who can get things done with and for customers - fast. * You've fed meaningful insights from the field back to product teams, influencing at least one roadmap decision. * You've become comfortable operating across the full Synthesia platform and API surface, and know where the edges are. * You've helped define the playbook for how FDE engagements are scoped, run, and handed off., At Synthesia we're passionate about building, not talking, planning or politicising. We strive to hire the smartest, kindest and most unrelenting people and let them do their best work without distractions. Our work principles serve as our charter for how we make decisions, give feedback and structure our work to empower everyone to go as fast as possible. You can find out more about these principles here., + Product Discovery/Implementation (75-90min) - Hands-on problem solving (not Leetcode style); collaboration exercise with one of our engineers. AI-assisted coding. + System Design Technical Discussion (60min) - Real architectural problems we've faced in production + Leadership Retrospective (60min) - Examples of collaboration and growth; your future manager or VP of Engineering will outline your role and what's ahead * Final debrief on our side which leads to an offer or the end of the process. You can find more details on what to expect and how to prepare HERE. 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