Forward Deployed Engineer - AI Integrations (France)

Fonio; Union (NJ); On-site; USD 67,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

Fonio, a European leader in AI phone agents, is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer for the French market. You will directly translate customer requirements into robust implementations, handling integrations, automations, and live deployments across customer setups.

You will collaborate with Product/Engineering and Go-to-Market teams to ensure fast, stable, repeatable deployments. French fluency and strong English are required for this customer-facing role.

Qualifications

• Solid coding skills and ability to implement independently.
• Strong understanding of AI systems, LLMs, prompting and tool use.
• Ability to translate complex processes into robust, testable flows.
• Experience with APIs, webhooks, auth and common integration patterns.
• Cloud fundamentals: deployments, observability, production debugging.
• Highly pragmatic: ship fast, make it stable, iterate.

Responsibilities

• Capture customer requirements and translate them into concrete implementation plans.
• Build and roll out fonio setups in production: workflows, logic, prompts, guardrails.
• Implement integrations with third-party systems (APIs, webhooks, CRM, calendar, ticketing).
• Develop smaller features and glue code to map customer cases.
• Debug under production conditions: calls, flows, edge cases, fast fixes.
• Build reusable templates and deployment playbooks for scalability.
• Deliver product feedback with concrete prioritized items.

Skills

Coding skills

AI systems & LLMs

Workflow design

APIs & webhooks

Cloud fundamentals

Pragmatic working style

French & English

Tools

TypeScript

Python

n8n

SQL

Job description

Fonio, a European leader in AI phone agents, is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer for the French market. You will directly translate customer requirements into robust implementations, handling integrations, automations, and live deployments across customer setups.

You will collaborate with Product/Engineering and Go-to-Market teams to ensure fast, stable, repeatable deployments. French fluency and strong English are required for this customer-facing role.