Forward Deployed Engineer at a $5B Enterprise AI Unicorn

Harper; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Harper in Singapore seeks a hands-on software engineer who will work directly with enterprise teams to design AI solutions and build agents that integrate with customer systems. You will turn ambiguous requirements into implementable architectures, deliver on-site deployments, and iterate with real data to production.

The role emphasizes strong communication, ownership, and collaboration with Product and Engineering to improve shared tools and documentation.

Qualifications

• Singapore citizen or permanent resident.
• 4+ years hands-on software engineering with production systems.
• Platform integration experience: APIs, cloud infrastructure, MCP, data flows.
• Strong technical problem-solving and comfort with customer-facing work.
• Excellent communication and a high ownership mindset.
• Fluent English, written and spoken.
• Team-first, low-ego, ship-fast culture.
• Nice to have: forward-deployed or solutions engineering, AI agent work, startup experience, cloud fluency.

Responsibilities

• Partner with customers to identify operational problems worth solving.
• Turn complex problems into technical designs and implement them.
• Deliver the platform on the customer's side and advise on best practices.
• Build AI agents integrated with customer systems and APIs.
• Run workshops with client teams.
• Write production-grade code for integrations and workflows.
• Manage deployments with reliability and performance as your responsibility.
• Test against real data and iterate quickly.
• Collaborate with internal Product and Engineering teams and contribute back to tools/docs.

Tools

TypeScript

Go

Python

Job description

Job Title

Top-of-market compensation.

Location

Singapore, on-site. Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents only.

Company Description

The client is backed by top-tier Silicon Valley investors and is expanding across the world: live in 35+ countries with around 650 people, and a local team in every market it deploys in. It helps large enterprises accelerate AI adoption to unlock their full potential, combining a complete AI operating system with local deployment teams that get AI into production quickly. It reached a $5B valuation in under two years, on more than $800M raised — its valuation went from $2B to $5B in the last six months alone. Singapore is its APAC hub, and this is the engineer the customer sees: the one who makes the product real in production.

What You'll Do

This is not traditional product engineering. You are paired directly with enterprise teams: you learn their workflows, design the AI solution, and build the agents that go into production.

• Partner with customers to find the operational problems worth solving.
• Turn complex, ambiguous problems into technical designs, then implement them.
• Deliver the platform on the customer's side, guiding them on best practices.
• Build AI agents integrated with customer systems and APIs.
• Run workshops with client teams.
• Write production-grade code for integrations and workflows.
• Manage deployments with reliability and performance as your responsibility.
• Test against real data and iterate fast.
• Work with the internal Product and Engineering teams, and contribute back to shared tools and documentation.

Who You Are

• Singapore Citizen or Permanent Resident.
• 4+ years of hands-on software engineering, with production systems you built and scaled.
• Platform integration experience: APIs, cloud infrastructure, MCP, data flows.
• Strong technical problem-solving, and comfortable in front of customers owning an ambiguous problem.
• Excellent communication and a high-ownership mindset.
• Fluent English, written and spoken.
• Team-first: this is a small, low-ego, ship-fast team, and chemistry weighs as heavily as competence.
• Great if you have: forward-deployed or solutions engineering background; AI agent or automation work; fast-growth startup experience; cloud fluency; TypeScript, Go, or Python.

Why Join

• You are the technical owner of the account, not a ticket in someone's backlog. First call to production is yours.
• APAC hub seat: Singapore-based, with exposure across the region.
• Join a company that went from zero to a $2B valuation in 13 months.
• Enterprise AI at the moment it actually lands in production, with 40+ locations already live.