Forward Deployed Engineering Manager

present of AI; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Deepset is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineering Manager who blends hands-on software engineering with customer-facing delivery. You will lead a team that builds and ships enterprise AI agent solutions directly with clients, translating their needs into robust systems and guiding governance and quality checks.

The role sits at the intersection of AI agents, evaluation tooling, and real-world deployments, demanding design judgment, client trust, and the ability to ship responsibly.

Qualifications

• Background in software engineering and delivery leadership.
• Comfort with enterprise deployments and governance.
• Ability to translate customer needs into working systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead customer-facing delivery and guide a team that builds and ships solutions directly with clients.
• Combine hands-on engineering with strategic delivery decisions.
• Translate customer needs into robust enterprise AI systems and oversee governance and quality gates.

Skills

Software engineering

Delivery leadership

Enterprise deployments

Customer needs translation

Tools

Open source frameworks

Job description

A Forward Deployed Engineering Manager typically combines hands on engineering with leading customer facing delivery, guiding a team that builds and ships solutions directly with clients. Strong candidates bring a background in software engineering, comfort with enterprise deployments, and the ability to translate customer needs into working systems. At a company building an enterprise platform and open source framework for AI agents, that means close work on real customer builds and governance.

How it fits the AI era

This role sits where AI meets delivery: agents and evaluation tooling change how solutions are built and checked, so the manager spends more time on design judgment, customer trust and quality gates. The human parts stay central, including scoping ambiguous problems, leading engineers through client pressure, and deciding what is good enough to ship.

How it builds AI experience

The work offers direct exposure to building, evaluating and governing AI agents on an enterprise platform, which is hard to learn from courses alone. Candidates can build that experience by shipping agent based prototypes, working with open source frameworks, and practicing evaluation and governance on real use cases.

Worth showing

• Hands on engineering leadership
• AI agent building
• Evaluation and governance

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About Deepset

Deepset provides an enterprise platform and open-source framework for building, evaluating, and governing sovereign artificial intelligence agents, according to the company.