Customer-Driven Forward Deployed Engineer

People Culture Talent; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

People Culture Talent is seeking Forward Deployed Engineers who bridge advanced technology and real-world customer problems. You’ll work directly with customers, navigate ambiguous challenges, and build deployable solutions in production environments.

You’ll collaborate across engineering, product, and customer teams to drive deployments, integrate systems, and translate customer needs into scalable improvements. Strong communication and hands-on technical skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering foundation with production systems experience.
• Ability to rapidly understand unfamiliar codebases and environments.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with customers to understand requirements, workflows, and business challenges.
• Design, build, and deploy solutions using the company’s core technology.
• Develop integrations, applications, APIs, data pipelines, or custom solutions.
• Work across engineering, product, sales, and customer teams to drive deployments.
• Debug complex issues across customer and product environments.
• Translate customer needs into product and engineering insights.
• Develop reusable tools, infrastructure, and best practices for future deployments.
• Serve as a trusted technical partner throughout implementation and adoption.

Skills

Software engineering

Codebase familiarity

Problem solving

Communication with stakeholders

Customer-oriented mindset

Full-stack capabilities

Tools

APIs

Data pipelines

Job description

People Culture Talent is seeking Forward Deployed Engineers who bridge advanced technology and real-world customer problems. You’ll work directly with customers, navigate ambiguous challenges, and build deployable solutions in production environments.

You’ll collaborate across engineering, product, and customer teams to drive deployments, integrate systems, and translate customer needs into scalable improvements. Strong communication and hands-on technical skills are essential.