Staff Forward Deployed Engineer - AI for Enterprise Remote

Alation, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 125,000 - 168,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Commuter benefits

Health offerings

Flexible time off

Job summary

Alation, Inc. is seeking a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to deliver AI-driven solutions at the enterprise level within Alation's platform. You will work cross-functionally with Deployment Strategists and Account Executives to ensure solutions provide measurable business value and align with customer governance needs.

The role emphasizes hands-on work with LLMs, BI/data pipelines, and scalable architectures, while mentoring junior engineers and influencing the product roadmap.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering, with meaningful experience in customer-facing technical roles such as Solutions Engineer, FDE, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Design and prototype AI agent systems and agentic workflows that automate data governance processes and complex reasoning tasks within Alation's platform.
• Engage directly with enterprise stakeholders to understand their data ecosystems and governance challenges, translating requirements into technical roadmaps tied to Alation's Knowledge Layer capabilities.
• Build BI and ML pipelines that convert cataloged data into actionable insights, demonstrating clear ROI for Alation deployments.
• Partner with Deployment Strategists to connect technical work to business outcomes, ensuring engagements are scoped and delivered against customer value metrics.
• Contribute to repeatable solution patterns and internal tooling, including accelerators and reusable components, that improve delivery consistency across the FDE team.
• Feed real-world customer patterns, edge cases, and AI use cases back to Product and Engineering to inform the core platform roadmap.
• Support competitive analysis in the field and surface observations from customer environments to GTM and Product teams.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior field engineers and customer technical teams on Alation architecture and AI best practices.

Skills

LLM frameworks

AI tooling

SQL

Data governance

Enterprise architecture

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Alation, Inc. is seeking a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to deliver AI-driven solutions at the enterprise level within Alation's platform. You will work cross-functionally with Deployment Strategists and Account Executives to ensure solutions provide measurable business value and align with customer governance needs.

The role emphasizes hands-on work with LLMs, BI/data pipelines, and scalable architectures, while mentoring junior engineers and influencing the product roadmap.