Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Coforge; New Jersey; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Coforge is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to drive outcomes for clients across NYC, Princeton, Dallas, Chicago and Santa Clara. You will lead a pod of engineers to architect and ship production-grade solutions inside complex security and data residency constraints.

The role demands 6–10 years shipping production software, experience with agentic systems in regulated environments, and the ability to guide senior engineers as a technical lead on client engagements.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years shipping production software.
• Experience deploying agentic systems in regulated environments.
• Led a small team or senior-level guidance role.

Responsibilities

• Own a client outcome end to end.
• Command a pod: lead associate FDEs and AI agents.
• Architect and ship into production within client security, data residency and legacy stacks.
• Act as the engagement's de facto CTO—translate client problems into scope and shipped software.

Skills

Forward Deployed Engineering

AI & Agentic Systems Development

Solution Architecture

Software Delivery

Job description

Job Title / Role: Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Key Skills: Forward Deployed Engineering, AI & Agentic Systems Development, Solution Architecture & Software Delivery

Experience: 6+

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

Shift: General

Mode: Ful-time

We at Coforge are seeking “Senior Forward Deployed Engineer” with the following skill set:

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.