Forward Deployed Engineer

Qodo; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Qodo is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to lead technical delivery across multiple deployments in Boston. You will work closely with customer engineering teams, driving hands-on debugging and architecture reviews while managing complex system deliveries.

Ideal candidates must have 5+ years of relevant experience in customer-facing roles, deep knowledge in Python or TypeScript, and proven expertise in LLM technologies. Join us to advance AI code reviews and governance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a technical, customer-facing role.
• Experience with building or consuming MCP servers or agent frameworks.
• Production experience with LLMs and advanced prompt engineering.

Responsibilities

• Own technical delivery across multiple deployments.
• Lead technical diagnosis and remediation in the codebase.
• Build customer-specific extensions and integrate them into the roadmap.
• Embed with customer engineering teams for hands-on implementation.

Skills

Technical delivery

Python

TypeScript

Customer-facing experience

Debugging live distributed systems

Communication skills

Job description

Qodo is building the AI code review and governance platform for the world's most ambitious engineering organizations. Our customers are shipping AI-generated code at a pace that breaks every assumption built into traditional code review, static analysis, and SDLC tooling. They turn to Qodo to keep quality, security, and governance from becoming the bottleneck.

In This Role You Will

• Own technical delivery across multiple deployments from first prototype to stable production, including core engineering work that unblocks strategic accounts.
• Lead deep technical diagnosis and remediation in our codebase and production environments, model routing and gateway behavior, large-PR scaling, multi-pass behavior, performance and reliability issues.
• Build customer-specific extensions (MCP servers, agent skills, platform integrations) that deliver immediate value and become durable product capability; upstream them into the main roadmap where appropriate.
• Embed closely with customer engineering teams: serve as their senior technical counterpart for hands-on debugging, architecture reviews, and joint implementation.
• Scope work, sequence delivery, and remove blockers early; make deliberate trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality to protect delivery timelines.
• Partner with Product, Research, and Platform to convert account learnings and eval-driven feedback into roadmap items, specs, and prioritized engineering work.
• Codify working patterns into tools, playbooks, runbooks, and reproducible benchmarks that Support and account teams can operate independently and help scale the field engineering function across the organization.
• Keep teams moving through clarity and follow-through; model calm judgment when the stakes are high.
• Be a champion for our mission in the field: every deployment is an opportunity to demonstrate it.

Requirements

• Bring 5+ years of experience in a technical, customer-facing role as a Forward Deployed Engineer, a Software Engineer with consulting exposure, or a founder with hands-on deployment experience.
• Experience building or consuming MCP servers or agent frameworks.
• Have scoped and delivered complex systems in fast-moving or ambiguous environments you know how to sequence work and protect delivery without slowing everything down.
• Write and review production-quality code in Python, TypeScript or comparable stacks; you contribute directly in the code when it matters.
• Have production experience with LLMs: advanced prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks, and deployment at scale and you actively stay current with the latest capabilities and implementation patterns.
• Have debugged hard problems in live distributed systems under time pressure and can write a postmortem that actually prevents recurrence.
• Have shipped integrations that started as customer-specific work and became broadly reusable product capability.
• Communicate clearly with engineers and non-technical stakeholders alike; you conduct discovery well, convey technical concepts to diverse audiences, and spot risks early enough to act on them.

Nice to Have

• Background in enterprise platform engineering, multi-tenancy design, or large-scale monorepo tooling.
• Prior work with model routing, inference infrastructure, or LLM gateway systems.