Forward Deployed Engineer

K2 Partnering Solutions; Milano; Ibrido; EUR 60.000 - 100.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

K2 Partnering Solutions is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with enterprise customers, designing AI-driven solutions and deploying production agents. You will translate complex business problems into concrete technical designs and collaborate across systems, data flows, and integrations.

The role requires hands-on ownership, strong communication, and comfort working in ambiguous environments. Milan/Rome, Italy; 4 days in the office; English and Italian fluency are expected.

Competenze

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering or technical problem-solving roles.
• Strong software design fundamentals and systems thinking.
• Experience working across systems, integrations and data flows.
• Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into technical designs and working solutions.
• Experience building, deploying and improving production systems.
• Strong ownership of reliability, performance and continuous improvement.
• Comfort working directly with customers and internal Product and Engineering teams.
• Interest in AI-powered systems and real-world automation.

Mansioni

• Understand critical workflows and design AI-driven solutions for customers.
• Deploy agents that operate reliably in production.
• Translate open-ended problems into clear technical designs.
• Build integrations across systems and data flows.
• Work with customers and internal teams to deliver end-to-end outcomes.

Conoscenze

5+ years experience

Software design

Systems thinking

Customer-facing

Ownership

Descrizione del lavoro

On behalf of our client, a fast-growing AI company, we are currently looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer for a permanent position.

The client is scaling its AI platform across enterprise customers and is building local teams in Italy to support the design, deployment and improvement of AI agents in real business environments.

Their work sits between software engineering, enterprise integrations, customer workflows and production AI systems. They are looking for engineers who can work close to customers and turn complex business problems into working technical solutions.

Role background

The selected candidate will work directly with enterprise customers to understand critical workflows, design AI-driven solutions and deploy agents that operate reliably in production.

The role includes translating open-ended problems into clear technical designs, building integrations across systems and data flows, testing with real data, measuring outcomes and iterating based on results.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on generalist engineer with strong ownership, clear communication skills and the ability to work well in ambiguous environments. This is not a pure pre-sales role. The person needs to build, ship, improve and own technical outcomes end-to-end.

Location:

Milan/Rome, Italy. 4 days a week in the office

Language:

English and Italian

Salary package:

€60,000-€100,000 gross annual salary, with flexibility for strong candidates depending on experience, seniority and overall fit

Skills:

• - 5+ years of experience in software engineering or technical problem-solving roles


• - Strong software design fundamentals and systems thinking


• - Experience working across systems, integrations and data flows


• - Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into technical designs and working solutions


• - Experience building, deploying and improving production systems


• - Strong ownership of reliability, performance and continuous improvement


• - Comfort working directly with customers and internal Product and Engineering teams


• - Interest in AI-powered systems and real-world automation

Nice to have:

• - Experience in forward-deployed engineering, solutions engineering or customer-facing technical roles


• - Exposure to AI agents, automation or conversational systems


• - Experience integrating software with customer systems and operational workflows


• - Experience contributing to tools, documentation and best practices that scale delivery