Forward Deployed Engineer

K2 Partnering Solutions; Roma; In loco; EUR 60.000 - 100.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

K2 Partnering Solutions is partnering with a fast-growing AI company to hire a Forward Deployed Engineer in Italy. The role is permanent with a strong focus on customer-facing delivery and end-to-end ownership.

You will design AI-driven solutions, deploy agents in production, and work closely with enterprise customers to turn complex business problems into working technical outcomes. Location: Milan or Rome, Italy, four days a week in the office.

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.
• Clear communication skills.
• Interest in AI-powered systems and real-world automation.

Mansioni

• Translate open-ended problems into clear technical designs and implementation plans.
• Design integrations across systems and data flows to support AI agents.
• Deploy, test and measure AI-driven solutions in production environments.
• Collaborate with customers and internal teams to iterate based on outcomes.

Conoscenze

Software engineering

Systems thinking

Customer-facing

Communication

AI/Automation interest

Production systems

Ownership

Reliability focus

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.

Project/Customer background

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
• - Clear communication skills
• - 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