Senior Technical Marketing Engineer – Network Automation (Fully Remote)

Forward Networks; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Forward Networks builds the industry's first network digital twin, a mathematically accurate model of the production network, enabling autonomous networking and AI agents to predict change impact. Backed by top investors, with a team of curious, evidence-driven builders, they serve global leaders like Goldman Sachs, PayPal, and IBM.

This technical marketing role partners with Product Management and Marketing to advance automation capabilities across enterprise networks, requiring strong

Qualifications

• 8+ years in technical marketing, sales engineering, or similar customer-facing role.
• Strong enterprise networking knowledge (routing, switching, change management).
• Experience with NetDevOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Hands-on with automation tools like Ansible, Terraform, Python, and REST APIs.
• Excellent communication and ability to explain complex concepts to diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product Management to define automation capabilities and use cases.
• Design customer workflows leveraging NQE, APIs, and CI/CD-driven verification.
• Enhance product integrations and build new ones across the network ecosystem.
• Build and maintain lab environments for demos and technical validation.
• Collaborate with Marketing on whitepapers, solution briefs, blogs, presentations, and videos.
• Enable Sales and Solutions teams with automation-focused demos and training.
• Represent Forward at customer meetings, webinars, and industry conferences.

Skills

Technical marketing

Enterprise networking knowledge

NetDevOps

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Python

Ansible

Terraform

REST APIs

Communication skills

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Python

REST APIs

Job description

• Partner with Product Management to define and validate automation capabilities and use cases.
• Design and evangelize customer workflows leveraging NQE, APIs, and CI/CD-driven verification.
• Enhance product integrations and build new ones to expand automation across the network ecosystem.
• Build and maintain lab environments for demos and technical validation.

How You'll Contribute:

• Collaborate with Marketing on whitepapers, solution briefs, blogs, presentations, and videos.
• Enable Sales and Solutions teams with automation-focused demos and technical training.
• Represent Forward at customer meetings, webinars, and industry conferences.

What We're Looking For:

• 8+ years in Technical Marketing, Sales Engineering, or similar customer-facing technical role.
• Strong enterprise networking knowledge (routing, switching, change management).
• Experience with NetDevOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Hands-on with automation tools like Ansible, Terraform, Python, and REST APIs.
• Excellent communication and ability to explain complex concepts to diverse audiences.

Forward Networks

Forward Networks builds the industry's first network digital twin, a mathematically accurate model of the production network, enabling autonomous networking and AI agents to predict change impact. Backed by top investors, with a team of curious, evidence-driven builders, they serve global leaders like Goldman Sachs, PayPal, and IBM.