Forward Deployed Engineering Lead

United States Digital Space LLC

United States

Hybrid

USD 154,250 - 246,800

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Foundational FDE Manager to lead high-stakes deployments and own technical and business value outcomes from end to end in Tokyo. The role requires growing a team that can operate under pressure, while collaborating with Product, Research, Sales, and GTM to inform roadmaps and ensure safe deployments at scale.

You will guide field teams, codify learnings into tools and playbooks, and emphasize speed, clarity, and technical quality.

Qualifications

8+ years of engineering or technical delivery experience.
2+ years managing FDE or customer-facing engineers.

Responsibilities

Lead and grow a team of FDE delivering production systems with frontier models.
Own end-to-end delivery outcomes through clarity, speed, tight coordination, and technical quality.
Codify what works into tools, playbooks, and roadmap inputs that create leverage for both the company and our wider developer community.
Notice early indicators and raise them with urgency, whether in product behavior, customer environments, or delivery practices.
Use judgement to distinguish what requires action and what does not.
Set a high bar for FDE performance and support each person’s growth through direct, actionable feedback.
Define how we staff and support field teams that can scale without added complexity.