Forward Deployed Engineer

Accountabilities

• Partner directly with customers as an embedded technical expert, taking ownership of designing, building, and deploying practical agentic solutions.


• Quickly understand new industries, business domains, customer data, technical environments, and desired outcomes.


• Identify AI and agentic workflows that can deliver measurable and realistic business value.


• Design and build proof-of-concepts and production-ready solutions using MCPs, skills, agent frameworks, tool-using LLMs, and the agent platform.


• Tailor agentic workflows to customer-specific data, systems, and operational requirements.


• Help customer engineering teams understand, adopt, extend, and ultimately take ownership of the solutions delivered.


• Conduct technical workshops, pairing sessions, enablement activities, and developer-focused engagements.


• Translate platform capabilities into practical technical solutions that customer engineers can implement and build upon.


• Capture recurring patterns, technical challenges, and product gaps from customer engagements and communicate them to the product and engineering teams.


• Contribute to pre-sales activities by helping evaluate AI use cases, scope potential solutions, and create technical examples that demonstrate value.

• Hands-on experience in a customer-facing technical position such as Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Architect, or a comparable role.


• Proven, practical experience building with agentic AI, including MCPs, agent frameworks, tool-using LLMs, or related technologies.


• Ability to quickly understand unfamiliar business domains and translate business needs into concrete technical solutions.


• Solid working knowledge of Kubernetes and cloud-native operations.


• Strong software engineering and coding skills, with a practical, hands-on approach to building and shipping solutions.


• Excellent communication skills and confidence working with both technical engineers and non-technical customer stakeholders.


• Ability to balance customer needs, technical constraints, and business outcomes effectively.


• Comfortable working in ambiguous environments where processes and best practices are still evolving.


• Strong ownership, adaptability, curiosity, and problem-solving skills.


• Experience with developer relations, technical workshops, enablement, or Solutions Architecture is a strong advantage.


• Willingness to align part of your working day with European time zones (UTC ±2 hours).

• Salary: €60,000–€90,000, with starting compensation determined through a location- and experience-based formula.


• Transparent compensation: Objective salary calculations designed to reduce pay gaps and limit the influence of negotiation on compensation.


• Fully remote: Work remotely with flexibility around how you organize your working environment.


• 32-hour workweek: Choose between a four-day working week or another schedule within the 32-hour framework.


• Flexible time off: Holidays are not counted individually, with a minimum time-off allowance instead.


• Equipment choice: Choose the hardware and software that best support your work.


• Remote-work perks: Monthly benefits designed to help cover the costs associated with working remotely.


• Professional development: Budget for training, certifications, coaching, workshops, and continuous learning.


• Career development: Regular feedback, personal development conversations, and opportunities to deepen your expertise.


• Paid parental leave: Strong family-friendly policies, including paid parental leave.


• Company gatherings: Twice-yearly company-wide meetings and opportunities to connect with colleagues at conferences.


• Collaborative culture: Cross-functional teams, strong emphasis on trust and teamwork, and meaningful individual ownership.


• Innovation time: Opportunities to participate in hackathons and focused project sprints.


• International environment: Work alongside talented colleagues and contribute to the wider cloud-native and open-source community.

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