Forward-Deployed AI Engineering Lead

Lovable; Town of Sweden (NY); On-site; USD 240,000 - 340,000; Full time

Job summary

Lovable is seeking a senior Forward Deployed Engineer leader to build and scale the FDE function across locations while staying hands-on. You will collaborate closely with customers to deploy intelligent systems and set high standards for architecture, engineering, and delivery.

You will lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team, translating deployment insights into core product improvements and shaping Lovable’s technical roadmap in a fast-moving AI-enabled platform environment.

Qualifications

• 12+ years across software engineering, technical architecture, and customer-facing engineering.
• Experience leading and developing high-performing technical teams.
• A track record of remaining deeply hands-on as your leadership scope has grown.
• Strong full-stack engineering fundamentals across modern frontend and backend development.
• Strong architectural thinking and familiarity with distributed systems.
• Experience owning complex technical engagements end-to-end.
• Exceptional product intuition and ability to work directly with users.
• Ability to move comfortably between writing code, making architectural decisions, leading engineers, and working with senior customer stakeholders.
• High agency and comfort operating in high-ambiguity, high-velocity environments.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, develop, and lead an exceptional team of Forward Deployed Engineers.
• Work directly with customers to understand their workflows, needs, and hardest technical problems.
• Personally design, prototype, and implement solutions alongside your team.
• Own and guide projects from idea → architecture → shipping → iteration.
• Set the technical bar through architecture decisions, code reviews, and hands-on engineering.
• Translate insights from customer deployments into foundational platform improvements.
• Partner with other FDE leads to shape standards, playbooks, and how the function scales globally.
• Contribute to core product strategy, technical decisions, and cultural foundations.

Skills

Hands-on leadership

Full-stack engineering

Distributed systems

Architectural thinking

Customer-facing engineering

Tools

Golang

Rust

TypeScript

React

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Job description

Lovable is seeking a senior Forward Deployed Engineer leader to build and scale the FDE function across locations while staying hands-on. You will collaborate closely with customers to deploy intelligent systems and set high standards for architecture, engineering, and delivery.

You will lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team, translating deployment insights into core product improvements and shaping Lovable’s technical roadmap in a fast-moving AI-enabled platform environment.