Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

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Company Overview
A fast-growing technology company is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with customers on high-impact operational, data, and technology challenges. The organization focuses on embedding engineering talent within customer environments to build and scale mission-critical applications that transform business processes and deliver measurable outcomes.

Summary
The Forward Deployed Engineer will partner directly with customer stakeholders to understand complex business challenges and translate them into practical, production-ready technical solutions. This role combines software engineering, data engineering, customer collaboration, and hands-on implementation. The successful candidate will build systems from the ground up, work with large datasets, and help organizations modernize their operations.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with customer stakeholders to understand critical business objectives and translate them into high-impact technical solutions.
• Architect, develop, and maintain applications that operationalize enterprise data and drive measurable business outcomes.
• Build end-to-end workflows using large structured and unstructured datasets in production environments.
• Rapidly iterate and build systems from scratch to help customers transform their operations.
• Collaborate directly with executives, operators, and cross-functional teams to deploy tools that improve business processes.
• Own projects independently, taking responsibility for delivery, implementation, and long-term success.
• Embed with customer teams when needed to provide technical expertise and on-site support.
• Travel to customer locations as required, typically 10% to 33% depending on the project.
• Work in a hybrid environment at company offices and customer locations during key deployment phases.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 1–5 years of experience as a Full Stack Engineer, Data Engineer, or Forward Deployed Engineer.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to break down complex challenges and deliver practical, production-ready solutions.
• Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript.
• Demonstrated experience building applications that leverage large datasets in real-world production environments.
• Proven ability to deliver measurable outcomes through software engineering, data science, or technical analytics.
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of projects from development through delivery.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills for working with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Willingness to travel approximately 10% to 33% for customer implementations.
• Enthusiasm for hybrid and in-person work at company offices and customer locations.

Preferred

• Experience working with Palantir Foundry and/or AIP.
• Experience delivering production machine learning or LLM-based solutions.
• Experience building production React frontend applications.
• Familiarity with Spark, distributed computing, or large-scale data processing frameworks.

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