Engineer I, Forward Deployed Engineer

About the role

Forward Deployed Engineers are the builders at the front of the delivery pipeline — embedded with business unit teams, prototyping AI ideas at a days-to-weeks cadence and handing proven solutions off cleanly for scale-up. The Engineer-I is a mid-level individual contributor in the FDE team. This role contributes to FDE engagements under the direction of more senior FDEs, learning the practice through hands-on work.

What you'll do

• Contribute to BU use case engagements — prototyping, demoing, refining — under the direction of more senior FDEs
• Embed with BU teams alongside the Lead or Senior FDE, building working relationships with BU engineers and product owners
• Operate AI agent workflows under guidance — contributing to multi-agent prototype delivery
• Use AI coding assistants as the default mode of building; develop genuine fluency with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Databricks AI Assistant
• Contribute to clean handoff packages for the Solutions Engineer — documentation, runbooks, and working software

What you need

• 5–9 years in software engineering
• Git
• Data structures
• Python
• TypeScript
• JavaScript
• Go
• B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA

Good to have

• Machine learning
• GCP
• Databricks
• LLMs
• Prompt engineering
• Deep learning

What you get