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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Forward Deployed Engineer (North America) - **Company:** AKKA - **Location:** New York, NY, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $104,000.0 - $230,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Akka (Toolkit), Systems Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Cluster Analysis, System Configuration, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Java Virtual Machine (JVM), Software Safety, Software Deployment, Large Language Models, Multi-Agent Systems, Backend, Kubernetes, Virtual Agents, Functional Programming - **Published:** June 5, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/usf35b663feea6f1ccbf092d61e7d61673 ## About the Role * Agentic AI & Logic Systems Expertise: Deep, hands-on proficiency in constructing complex logic systems using LLMs and multi-agent frameworks. You must be highly skilled in context engineering, managing semantic data, designing dynamic orchestration flows, and implementing multi-agent interactions. * AI Safety, Guardrails, & Evaluation: Strong background in building enterprise-grade policy ladders and implementing robust guardrails to ensure agentic behavior remains predictable and safe. Experience building AI test suites for continuous evaluation and model performance measurement is highly desired. * Elite Communication & Client Polish: You must possess native-level English verbal and written fluency. You can confidently lead technical presentations, command a room of enterprise engineers, and translate complex concepts into clear, structured discussions. * Hyper-Fast Technical Adaptability: A voracious learner who thrives in ambiguity. You have a proven track record of picking up new languages, frameworks, and cutting-edge AI paradigms in days, not weeks, and can confidently write code and build prototypes within them. * The "Teacher" Mindset: A background in technical enablement, developer relations, technical consulting, or engineering mentorship. You genuinely enjoy teaching, public speaking, and pairing with other developers to solve problems. * Distributed Computing Foundation: Solid experience in distributed architecture and functional programming concepts. Specific hands-on experience with Akka (Clustering, Persistence, and Streams) is highly desirable. * JVM Proficiency: Strong professional understanding of Java or other JVM-based languages. * Cloud-Native & SRE Awareness: Understanding of application deployment and container orchestration, particularly Kubernetes, to help customers achieve a safe, repeatable path to production. ## Description Akka is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) who perfectly balances sharp technical capability with elite, client-facing communication. This is an interactive, high-impact role. You are not a "behind the scenes" developer, nor are you a high-level consultant who just talks strategy. You are an adaptable, sharp engineer who can command a room of enterprise developers, understand their architectures, and teach them how to build production-grade applications on our agentic platform. Your success is measured by the customer's technical self-sufficiency and the ultimate stability of their push to production. You are a fast-twitch learner who can rapidly master new tech stacks, confidently unblock engineering hurdles alongside customer teams, and mentor them to success., 1. High-Touch Client Enablement & Technical Training * Educational Leadership: Design and deliver highly engaging technical workshops, architectural deep-dives, and hands-on training sessions to customer development teams, taking them from zero to proficient on the Akka tech stack. * Technical Mentorship & Pairing: Act as a core technical anchor. Enable customer developers through architectural guidance, pairing on complex production logic, and building "spikes" (proofs of concept) that the customer then owns and scales. * Rapid Adaptability: Quickly grasp unfamiliar customer architectures, business domains, and codebases, providing immediate, collaborative technical direction and troubleshooting. 2. Guiding Production Success (AI & Systems Engineering) * Agentic Strategy: Guide customers in architecting logic systems using multi-agent LLM interactions, focusing on context engineering, semantic data, and dynamic orchestration. * System Hardening: Provide the technical expertise needed for customers to harden their own environments, helping them build policy ladders with extensive guardrails and mitigated deployment risks. * Deployment Excellence: Ensure customer applications are resilient, production-ready, and scalable. You provide the tools, SRE best practices, and systems knowledge required for a safe, repeatable path to production. * SRE & DevOps Guidance: Advise on environment setup and container orchestration to ensure backend stability and reliability once live. 3. Strategic Partnership * Customer Voice: Serve as a bidirectional bridge between the customer and Akka's internal Product and Engineering teams to influence the roadmap based on real-world engineering friction points. * Ongoing Growth: Host interactive "Office Hours" and recurring architectural reviews to help the customer's system safely evolve. ## Related Videos - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [Developing the Backend with Stefan Lingler, CTO at Shpock](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100360-developing-the-backend-with-stefan-lingler-cto-at-shpock) - [Understanding Kubernetes in a visual way](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100085-understanding-kubernetes-in-a-visual-way) - [Designing and Deploying Distributed Multimodal Multi-Agent Systems with Google's AI Stac](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1976-designing-and-deploying-distributed-multimodal-multi-agent-systems-with-google-s-ai-stac) - [DevOps Maturity Check – a way to balance autonomy and alignment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/58-devops-maturity-check-a-way-to-balance-autonomy-and-alignment) - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [What is Agentic Programming and Why Should Developers Care?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/625-what-is-agentic-programming-and-why-should-developers-care) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs)