FDE (Forward-Deployed Engineer)

FlairX; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

FlairX Inc. in San Francisco is seeking an experienced professional to translate business challenges into AI-powered software solutions across the full lifecycle. You will lead discovery through deployment, build enterprise-grade applications, and collaborate with product and engineering to turn customer insights into product innovation.

Open to professionals at different career stages, responsibilities and ownership will scale with your experience and the complexity of solutions you can deliver.

Qualifications

• Strong experience building and deploying production-quality software applications.
• Hands-on expertise in AI-powered solutions, modern AI tools, and models.
• Understanding of software architecture, data engineering, integrations, infrastructure, and enterprise systems.
• Ability to translate ambiguous business requirements into scalable, practical solutions.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and customer-facing skills.
• Self-driven mindset with the ability to take ownership and deliver end-to-end outcomes.
• Curiosity to experiment with emerging technologies and continuously learn.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with customers to understand business challenges and translate them into practical technology solutions.
• Lead solution development from discovery and design to production deployment and adoption.
• Build and deploy AI-powered applications, integrations, and data solutions in real-world enterprise environments.
• Work with customer systems, data, workflows, and infrastructure.
• Monitor solution performance, gather feedback, and continuously improve.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to bring customer insights into product innovation.

Skills

Production-quality software

AI-powered solutions

Software architecture understanding

Data engineering understanding

Integrations

Enterprise systems

Customer-facing communication

End-to-end delivery

Ownership

Curiosity to learn

Job description

One of our clients is a fast-growing, AI-native products and services organisation helping enterprises and AI innovators navigate the complete AI lifecycle — from identifying AI opportunities to building, deploying, and scaling solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes.

With 70+ customers, including Fortune 500 and Global 2000 organisations, they are driving the next wave of enterprise AI transformation.

What You'll Do

• Work directly with customers to understand business challenges and translate them into practical technology solutions.
• Lead solution development from discovery and design to production deployment and adoption.
• Build and deploy AI-powered applications, integrations, and data solutions in real-world enterprise environments.
• Work with customer systems, data, workflows, and infrastructure.
• Monitor solution performance, gather feedback, and continuously improve.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to bring customer insights into product innovation.

What We're Looking For

• Strong experience building and deploying production-quality software applications.
• Hands-on expertise in AI-powered solutions, modern AI tools, and models.
• Understanding of software architecture, data engineering, integrations, infrastructure, and enterprise systems.
• Ability to translate ambiguous business requirements into scalable, practical solutions.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and customer-facing skills.
• Self-driven mindset with the ability to take ownership and deliver end-to-end outcomes.
• Curiosity to experiment with emerging technologies and continuously learn.

Experience

Open to professionals at different career stages. Responsibilities and ownership will align with your experience and the complexity of solutions you can deliver.