Lead Forward Deployed Engineer

Lead Forward Deployed Engineers (FDE) are the most senior technical leaders in the FDE organization. They own the overall technical strategy for the FDE domain, not just individual engagements, and are accountable for how the entire function operates, scales, and improves over time. This role sits at the intersection of technical depth, organizational strategy, and people leadership.

• Own the FDE organization's overall engagement strategy, serving as the primary technical escalation point across the portfolio.
• Act as the trusted technical counterpart to customer executives and internal VP/executive stakeholders.
• Set the technical architecture standards and design principles that govern how the FDE domain builds customer-facing solutions.
• Stay hands-on, writing and reviewing code and unblocking the hardest technical failures.
• Own the translation of field-wide patterns into the FDE domain's long-term technical vision.
• Own the technical growth and career development of FDEs through mentorship, coaching, and calibration.
• Serve as the final point of technical judgment when the team is deadlocked.

• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience, including hands-on technical leadership in production systems.
• Demonstrated success setting technical strategy at an organizational level.
• Proven experience designing and directing production-grade integrations, platforms, or distributed systems.
• Excellent technical judgment under high ambiguity.
• Ability to influence and align VP/executive-level stakeholders.
• Track record of developing senior and staff-level engineers.
• Willingness to travel up to 30% for executive engagements.
• Preferred: experience setting technical strategy for LLM, agent framework, retrieval, evaluation, or production AI systems.

Base salary range for this role in the U.S. is $137,000—$270,000 USD.

Eligible employees may receive equity, participation in the employee stock purchase program, flexible paid time off, 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, 401(k) plan, mental health counseling, access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, and health benefits offerings.

Apply via the provided link.