Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Coforge; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Momentuum blue, a Coforge Company, seeks Senior FDEs to lead pods of associate FDEs and AI agents across US and UK. You will own client outcomes end to end, translating ambiguous problems into production software within client security and data residency constraints.

Role emphasizes leading a small team, shaping technical direction, and delivering shipped software rather than pure advisory. Not a demo role but hands-on production delivery.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years shipping production software with customer-facing delivery experience.
• Led a small team of engineers or associates in delivery projects.
• Able to engage with client engineering, security, and compliance teams to reach yes.
• Uses agentic coding tools as a default working method.
• Capable of translating client problems into shipped software with minimal guidance.

Responsibilities

• Own a client outcome end to end, from initial convo to production system.
• Command a pod: direct associate engineers and AI agents on day one.
• Architect and ship into production within client security/data residence constraints.
• Act as the engagement's de facto CTO, defining scope and translating into shipped software.
• Transfer capability and documentation to the client's team, reducing dependency.

Skills

Lead a team

Client delivery

Outcomes over hours

Agentic tooling

Cross-functional engagement

Production software

Tools

Agentic coding tools

Job description

Company: Momentuum blue, a Coforge Company

Locations: NYC / Princeton, NJ / Dallas, TX / Chicago, IL / Santa Clara, CA

Employment type: Full-time

Momentuum blue embeds engineers directly inside client organizations to ship production AI systems — not pilots, not proofs of concept, not decks. We're Coforge Company, a global technology services firm, which gives us the balance sheet, delivery infrastructure, and enterprise relationships a standalone FDE shop doesn't have — without asking our engineers to carry the sales cycles, bench utilization targets, or staffing-model economics of a traditional IT services business.

We are already deployed. Senior FDEs from Momentuum blue are embedded with clients in financial services, insurance, and professional services today. We're not asking you to join something that exists on a roadmap.

We're hiring Senior FDEs to lead pods — one senior FDE, a small team of associate FDEs, and AI agents — across US and UK, with more industries opening through 2027.

What you'll own

This role is measured on outcomes delivered, not tickets closed or hours billed.

• Own a client outcome end to end. The business result the client is paying for, from ambiguous first conversation to production system.
• Command a pod. Associate FDEs and AI agents are your team from day one. You set technical direction, review their work, and are accountable for what the pod ships.
• Architect and ship into production. Inside the client's actual security model, data residency rules, and legacy stack.
• Operate as the engagement's de facto CTO. Translate an ambiguous client problem into scope, and scope into shipped software, without waiting for someone else to define the spec.
• Leave the client's team stronger. Transfer capability and documentation. A good engagement reduces the client's dependency on us, not increases it.
• Say the hard thing. To the client, when the scope is wrong or the timeline is fiction.
• Feed the academy. What you learn in the field becomes training material for the next cohort of associate FDEs. Senior FDEs shape how Momentuum blue teaches, not just how it delivers.

Who thrives in this role

• 6–10 years shipping production software, with meaningful time in customer-facing, embedded, or consulting-adjacent delivery.
• Has already put an agentic system into production inside a regulated or otherwise constrained environment — not a demo, not a hackathon.
• Has led a small team, formally or informally, and is comfortable being one of a handful of senior people that associate engineers look to for direction.
• Uses agentic coding tools as a default working method, not a novelty.
• Has sat across the table from a client's engineering, security, and compliance teams simultaneously, and gotten to yes.
• Wants to be evaluated on outcomes delivered, not hours logged.

What this role is not

• Not staff augmentation. You own an outcome, not a backlog assigned by a client PM.
• Not advisory. You ship production code. If the engagement doesn't produce shipped software, it doesn't count.
• Not tied to one vendor. You'll work across Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, SpaceXAI, and NVIDIA stacks depending on what the client's problem requires — not a single-platform mandate.
• Not remote-first. This role lives at the client site during active engagements.