Head of Deployed AI Engineering (Hands-On Leader)

Fieldguide; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Fieldguide seeks a Senior Manager, Deployed Engineering to lead and hands-on build deployments for major enterprise clients. You’ll own technical delivery, mentor engineers, and shape the team as Fieldguide scales in regulated environments.

You will partner with CTO, Product, and Customer leadership to convert field work into reusable platform features, while maintaining close customer relationships and delivering production-grade AI agents.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of leadership experience in forward deployed, deployment, solutions or customer engineering.
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers.
• Knowledge of audit, accounting, risk or compliance.
• Experience at a Big 4 firm (Deloitte, PwC, EY, KPMG) or a major consulting firm.
• Experience deploying LLM or agent-based systems in production.

Responsibilities

• Lead deployments for enterprise customers, including single-tenant and government-cloud environments.
• Write production code and build agents, integrations, and tools.
• Be the senior technical voice with customers and advise partners on AI agent fit.
• Build and grow the FDE team; hire, coach and mentor engineers.
• Turn field learnings into repeatable playbooks, tools, and platform features.

Skills

leadership

customer engineering

hands-on coding

LLM deployments

audit knowledge

stakeholder management

mentoring

team building

Job description

Fieldguide seeks a Senior Manager, Deployed Engineering to lead and hands-on build deployments for major enterprise clients. You’ll own technical delivery, mentor engineers, and shape the team as Fieldguide scales in regulated environments.

You will partner with CTO, Product, and Customer leadership to convert field work into reusable platform features, while maintaining close customer relationships and delivering production-grade AI agents.