Manager, Firefly FDE

About the role

As a Manager, Forward Deployed AI Engineering, you will lead, mentor, and inspire a team of Forward Deployed AI Engineers (FDEs)—creative technologists who prototype, build, and launch GenAI-powered solutions and products directly with customers. Your mission is to cultivate top engineering talent, instill a culture of rapid innovation and delivery excellence, and ensure every engagement drives measurable business impact.

What you'll do

• Recruit, coach, and empower a high-performing team of Forward Deployed AI Engineers (and select Forward Deployed AI Architects)
• Act as both mentor and peer-level engineer—reviewing code, shaping architectures, and guiding engineers on technical depth, delivery velocity, and customer impact
• Cultivate a culture of engineering excellence, experimentation, and AI tinkering, ensuring the team stays at the frontier of generative AI and enterprise delivery
• Develop future leaders by strengthening technical judgment, customer-facing confidence, and multi-functional influence
• Customer Engagement & Technical Delivery

What you need

• 8–14 yrs of experience
• AWS
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• LLMs
• CI/CD
• Machine learning
• Any graduate

Good to have

• Performance marketing
• Azure
• Product strategy
• Prototyping