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# Forward Deployed Engineer

- **Company:** Luma Corp Inc
- **Location:** Redwood City, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, TypeScript, Juniper, Information Technology, Golang
- **Published:** October 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/forward-deployed-engineer-redwood-city-ca--bfe3d3a5-38f2-49e3-b9c6-67aacf51149a

## About the Role

Application Programming Interface (API), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Research Laboratory, Juniper Networks M-Series, Product Shipments, Research & Development (R&D), Product Development, Consulting, Writing Skills, Identify Issues, * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience

 * 2+ years of professional software engineering experience
 * Strong proficiency in at least one general-purpose language (Python, TypeScript, Go, or similar)
 * Experience building and shipping software end-to-end
 * Ability to work across the stack and learn unfamiliar systems quickly
 * Ability and interest to travel as needed to client sites, * A track record of shipping real systems with real users, not just completing assigned tasks.
 * High agency and strong prioritization skills - you can figure out the core problem and move.
 * Comfort defining your own path when there isn't one.
 * Evidence of working directly with customers or users, and translating what you heard into what you built.
 * Clear communication, including explaining a technical decision to a non-technical stakeholder.

## Description

* An engineer who became the customer's engineer - the one who flew out, sat in their office, and rebuilt their workflow because the standard product didn't fit.
 * A consultant or architect who codes for real - you didn't just diagram the system, you wrote it.
 * A builder with a customer instinct - strong technical foundation, a track record of personal projects with real users, and a pattern of identifying problems and moving on them without waiting.

What ties these together: you've made the call yourself, you've shipped against ambiguity, and you know the difference between "delivered" and "actually used."

What You'll Do

 * Work directly with customers to understand their workflows, constraints, and goals.
 * Define the problem - there is no PRD waiting for you.
 * Build production systems on Luma's APIs, models, and internal tools.
 * Prototype, ship, iterate, and maintain systems that customers depend on inside of real environments with real data.
 * Own projects end-to-end, from first conversation to deployed system.
 * Identify the patterns worth productizing and feed them back to platform and R&D.

Raise the Bar

FDEs leverage AI to accelerate implementation, but the core of the role is engineering judgment - knowing what to build, how to structure it, and how to make it work reliably in messy real-world environments. Breadth, product intuition, and customer empathy matter more here than narrow specialization. We're not looking for unicorns; we're looking for builders who can hold all three.