Forward Deployed Engineer

CoMavenAI; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Unlimited PTO

Profit sharing exploration

Job summary

CoMavenAI is hiring its first Forward Deployed Engineer to sit with clients and transform business needs into working software quickly.

You will embed with client teams, own outcomes, and evolve how engineering collaborates with product, design, and operations in an AI-enabled environment. Travel to client offices is expected periodically as we scale.

Qualifications

• 1-5 years of software engineering experience.
• Degree in computer science or a similar field.
• Solid software engineering fundamentals: design, build, debug, and ship production systems.
• Strong fundamentals in at least one language and framework.
• Experience building with modern stacks.
• Comfort in the room with clients and clear communication.
• Genuine comfort with ambiguity and ownership mindset.
• Enthusiasm for AI-assisted development with quality discipline.

Responsibilities

• Embed with client teams to understand their business and workflows.
• Translate ambiguous problems into scoped, shippable solutions.
• Build and deploy production software end to end—from discovery to operations.
• Run sprint demos and working sessions with client stakeholders.
• Work daily with AI development tools and agentic workflows.
• Partner with company leadership on solution direction and client strategy.

Skills

Software engineering

Client interaction

Ambiguity handling

Ownership mindset

AI-assisted development

Education

Degree in computer science or similar field

Tools

Modern stacks

AI development tools

DevOps basics

Job description

Most of the value of AI in a real business isn't magic, it's a machine doing the tedious parts correctly, every time. We listen first, build what actually helps, and we're honest enough to say when AI isn't the answer. Now we're hiring our first Forward Deployed Engineers to sit shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients and build it with them.

The role

Forward Deployed Engineer means exactly what it sounds like: you get embedded with our clients and build alongside them. You'll sit in the conversations where problems actually get defined - not just where tickets get assigned - and turn ambiguous business needs into working software, fast.

You'll get direct support from our product and engineering leadership, and just as importantly, you'll learn alongside them and help shape how we build as we grow. Sprint demos are part of our practice, and you'll run them. You'll be in front of clients regularly - discovery sessions, working sessions, demos, and the occasional hard conversation - and you'll own outcomes, not just code.

We're leaning into how the engineering role is evolving. In a given week you might wear the hats of product owner, designer, engineer, test engineer, and DevOps. If you're energized by navigating how AI is changing this profession - while still holding onto the fundamentals that make software actually work - you'll fit right in.

What you'll do

• Embed with client teams to understand their business, their workflows, and where software and AI can genuinely help
• Translate messy, ambiguous business problems into scoped, shippable solutions
• Build and deploy production software end to end... discovery through design, implementation, testing, and operations
• Run sprint demos and working sessions with client stakeholders
• Work daily with AI development tools and agentic workflows, and bring real judgment to what they produce
• Partner directly with company leadership on solution direction and client strategy

What we're looking for

• 1-5 years of software engineering experience
• A degree in computer science or a similar field
• Solid software engineering fundamentals: you can design, build, debug, and ship production systems and explain your decisions
• Strong fundamentals in at least one language and framework
• Experience building with modern stacks
• Comfort in the room with clients: you listen well, ask sharp questions, communicate clearly, and stay composed when requirements shift
• Genuine comfort with ambiguity (you'd rather figure out the right thing to build than be handed a spec)
• An ownership mindset: you care about the client's outcome, not just your commit history
• Enthusiasm for AI-assisted development paired with the discipline to verify, test, and hold a quality bar

Location and travel

This is a Charlotte, NC based role. We're remote to start, and we'll transition to a hybrid rhythm once we open our Charlotte office, which we expect within the next year or so. We are forward deployed. That means we'll often travel (by car) to our client's offices and meet subject matter experts in person

Occasional flight travel is part of the job (think quarterly, plus the odd conference) not a weekly grind. We're a team of parents and we build our travel expectations accordingly.

Compensation and benefits

• Health insurance
• Unlimited PTO
• No equity - we'd rather tell you that upfront than dress it up. Profit sharing is something we're exploring as we grow.
• The chance to help build an engineering practice from the ground up, working directly with leadership - and the networking, exposure, and experience that come with being early

About CoMavenAI

Our tagline is "Your Vision, Engineered," and we mean it. We build custom AI systems that eliminate tedious work - sales automation, workflow automation, and custom forward-deployed builds embedded inside our clients' teams.

We're an authorized partner in Anthropic's Claude Partner Network and build across Anthropic, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Google platforms. We'll support you in getting certified through the partner program as part of the role.

CoMavenAI is a StratusPointIT company. Learn more about us.