Forward-Deployed & Solutions Engineering jobs

Forward-deployed engineers are the people AI companies embed with customers to make the product actually work in the field: wiring integrations, tuning prompts against real data, and shipping the last mile the core team can't see from headquarters. Palantir named the role; the current agent wave made it standard issue at enterprise AI startups.

Expect real engineering — Python, APIs, data plumbing — combined with the customer instincts of a consultant, and travel or customer-site time in many postings. It's the fastest-growing job family at applied AI companies, often the second-largest engineering group after core product. Compensation frequently includes variable pay, and career paths fork toward product, sales, or founding-team roles at the next startup.