Senior Forward-Deployed Engineer — Enterprise AI Integrations

MongoDB; Tysons (VA); Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

MongoDB is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer based in Tysons, VA for a hybrid role that partners with enterprise customers to design, build, troubleshoot, and productionize solutions. You will own technical outcomes end to end, shipping integrations and feeding learnings back into the product roadmap.

Ideal candidates have hands-on production engineering experience, AI-focused development background, and a track record of delivering production-ready software in complex enterprise

Qualifications

• 5 - 8 years of engineering experience required.
• Hands-on production engineering experience, including writing code, debugging failures, and implementing fixes directly.
• Engineering experience in AI and agentic development.
• Experience with developing and deploying software within enterprise environments.
• Experience shipping production solutions at scale that customers relied on.
• Experience building integrations across existing systems and infrastructure.
• Strong troubleshooting and code review skills, including the ability to identify root causes and drive resolution.
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 30% to customer sites as needed.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary technical owner for customer engagements from discovery through production rollout.
• Understand each customer's architecture, constraints, and definition of success, and drive toward that outcome.
• Manage expectations, communicate risks clearly, and help customers navigate technical decisions with confidence.
• Build connectors, pipelines, and tooling to make the platform work inside enterprise environments.
• Write production-quality code, troubleshoot issues, and implement fixes directly in active workstreams.
• Work effectively within customer environments with different stacks and constraints.
• Capture product feedback with logs, reproduction steps, and a clear proposed path forward.
• Document technical decisions and tradeoffs clearly so product and engineering teams can extend the work.
• Coordinate independently across internal teams and customer stakeholders to keep delivery moving.

Skills

Production engineering

AI/agentic development

Enterprise deployment

Production delivery at scale

System integrations

Troubleshooting & code review

Travel up to 30%

5–8 years experience

Job description

MongoDB is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer based in Tysons, VA for a hybrid role that partners with enterprise customers to design, build, troubleshoot, and productionize solutions. You will own technical outcomes end to end, shipping integrations and feeding learnings back into the product roadmap.

Ideal candidates have hands-on production engineering experience, AI-focused development background, and a track record of delivering production-ready software in complex enterprise