AI Delivery Lead, Forward-Deployed Engineering

ByteDance; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

ByteDance in Singapore is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to lead AI application deployment in client environments, delivering production-grade solutions and guiding feature iteration.

You will manage a team of FDEs, design AI and cloud architectures, integrate client APIs, and build high-performance evaluation pipelines to ensure accuracy, safety, and latency. You will collaborate with client teams to ensure successful launches and long-term adoption.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/engineering, math, or related field or equivalent hands-on experience.
• 5+ years of client-facing technical architecture and delivery experience.
• 2+ years of technical team management experience.
• Experience with AI applications (prompt engineering, fine-tuning, RAG, agent development) and cloud-based architectures.

Responsibilities

• Develop understanding of client scenarios; lead FDEs to build/validate AI prototypes and production-grade deployments.
• Lead FDEs in AI/cloud architectures and integration with client APIs and data systems with security compliance.
• Build high-performance evaluation pipelines and observability for agent systems; ensure accuracy, safety, latency.
• Identify reusable patterns, translate into product feature requests, drive development.
• Collaborate with client engineering teams to ensure successful launches, long-term success, and adoption of AI applications.

Skills

Client-facing leadership

Technical architecture

Team management

AI applications experience

Cloud architectures

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Master's or PhD (preferred)

Tools

LangGraph

CrewAI

Job description

ByteDance in Singapore is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to lead AI application deployment in client environments, delivering production-grade solutions and guiding feature iteration.

You will manage a team of FDEs, design AI and cloud architectures, integrate client APIs, and build high-performance evaluation pipelines to ensure accuracy, safety, and latency. You will collaborate with client teams to ensure successful launches and long-term adoption.