Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

Nxtwave Disruptive Technologies; Dadri, Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Nxtwave Disruptive Technologies is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer in Uttar Pradesh, India to build, ship, and operate production-grade AI-powered systems directly with customers.

You will own solutions end-to-end from discovery to production, embedding customer delivery and ensuring measurable business impact through robust backend and integration work.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering, architecture, or technical delivery.
• Enterprise delivery experience from discovery to deployment.
• Backend and integration engineering with APIs and data integrations.
• Experience building LLM applications and eval/quality gates.
• CI/CD, environments, containers, and cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Security/privacy fundamentals (PII handling) in implementations.
• Strong communication and stakeholder influence; translating trade-offs to decision-makers.

Responsibilities

• Build, ship, and operate code in real customer environments.
• Bridge product intent, engineering execution, and deployment for measurable impact.
• Own solutions end-to-end from discovery through production.
• Ensure AI systems deliver business outcomes for customers.

Skills

Software engineering

Architecture

Technical delivery

LLM applications

Customer delivery

Tools

APIs

CI/CD

Containers

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Role Purpose

The Forward Deployed Engineer builds and delivers production-grade, AI-powered systems directly with customers. This is a builder role: you will write, ship, and operate code in real customer environments. The FDE bridges product intent, engineering execution, and real-world deployment - owning solutions end-to-end. From discovery through production, the FDE ensures Agentic AI systems deliver measurable customer and business impact.

Requirements

• 5+ years in software engineering, architecture, or technical delivery; strong record of shipping production systems.
• Demonstrated customer-embedded delivery: discovery-to-deployment in enterprise environments.
• Hands-on backend and integration engineering (APIs, services, data integrations); strong debugging skills.
• Experience building LLM applications (tool calling, RAG, orchestration) and creating eval/quality gates.
• Production deployment discipline (CI/CD, environments, containers) and cloud experience (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Security and privacy fundamentals (secrets, access controls, PII handling) applied in implementations.
• Strong communication and stakeholder influence; comfortable translating trade-offs to decision-makers.

JD Link : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1edRLpZv0U5l0oJqYtLdppeOV0mcsoPJr/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=104030316207198336963&rtpof=true&sd=true

Skills: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12dqYU3PfJD7ucEcHPXCZ7wcuhJSWTuYf/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=104030316207198336963&rtpof=true&sd=true