Forward Deployed Engineer

AIEngg; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,530,000 - 2,070,000; Full time

Job summary

AIEngg in Bengaluru is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to bridge product engineering and customer delivery. You will understand complex customer problems and own the solution through production rollout.

You will design, build and ship integrations, data pipelines and AI-enabled workflows, while prototyping quickly and hardening for security, observability, reliability and maintainability.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in software engineering, solution engineering, or customer-facing roles.
• Strong fundamentals and production shipping experience.
• Fluency in at least one backend language, APIs, SQL, and cloud infra.
• Ability to navigate unfamiliar codebases independently.
• Experience with customers or stakeholders from discovery to deployment.
• Clear communication and ownership.
• AI systems or data pipelines experience is a plus but not required.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with customer teams to understand workflows and success criteria.
• Design, build and ship integrations, APIs, data pipelines and AI-enabled workflows.
• Prototype quickly and harden solutions for security, observability, reliability and maintainability.
• Debug issues across customer environments, cloud infrastructure and code.
• Lead onboarding, deployment and handover with documentation and stakeholder communication.
• Turn repeated customer needs into reusable product capabilities with core engineering.

Skills

Backend development

API design

SQL

Cloud infrastructure

Customer-facing delivery

Ownership

Job description

We are hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to work at the boundary between product engineering and customer delivery. You will understand difficult customer problems, build the right technical solution and own it through a reliable production rollout.What you will do:1. Work directly with customer engineering and business teams to understand workflows, constraints and success criteria.2. Design, build and ship integrations, APIs, data pipelines and AI-enabled workflows around our products.3. Prototype quickly, then harden solutions for security, observability, reliability and maintainability.4. Debug issues across customer environments, cloud infrastructure, data and application code, and stay accountable through resolution.5. Lead technical onboarding, deployment and handover with clear documentation and stakeholder communication.6. Turn repeated customer needs into reusable product capabilities with our core engineering team.What we look for:1. At least 3 years of experience in software engineering, solution engineering, technical consulting or customer-facing implementation.2. Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience shipping production systems.3. Fluency in at least one backend language, API and integration patterns, SQL and cloud infrastructure.4. The ability to navigate unfamiliar codebases and ambiguous requirements independently.5. Experience working directly with customers or cross-functional stakeholders from discovery through deployment.6. Clear communication, sound technical judgment and strong ownership.7. Experience with AI systems, data pipelines, enterprise integrations or developer tools is useful but not required.

Compensation 18 LPA