[Hiring] Forward Deployed Engineer @FullStack

Role Description

Forward Deployed Engineers sit inside the client’s problem, not next to it. You embed with an enterprise team, find the work that actually warrants AI, architect the system, build it, and make it hold up in the real environment. This is a three-way role: consultant, operator, engineer.

• You should be as comfortable pressure-testing a business case with a COO or VP of Engineering as you are debugging why an agent’s tool-calling loop degraded after a context change.
• The people who succeed here can hold a discovery conversation on Monday and ship what they scoped on Thursday.
• Your edge is application engineering: you make agents real inside the client’s actual systems, workflows, and delivery pipelines.

We work with regulated industries and Fortune 500 clients who have AI mandates, real constraints, and low tolerance for demos that don’t hold up.

How We Approach The Work

• FDEs are trusted to shape the solution, not only deliver it. Every engagement calls for architect-level judgment:
• Reframes the request. Treats “we need an agent for X” as a hypothesis, not a spec.
• Decomposes the problem. Outcome → process → decisions → data → systems → actors → constraints — before choosing technology.
• Chooses the intervention. Remove, simplify, traditional software, automation, LLM, RAG, agent, or multi-agent — and defends why.
• Owns the architecture decision. Documents trade-offs (ADRs), sets success metrics, pushes back on scope that won’t deliver value.

Consultative Discovery

• Clients rarely arrive with a fully formed problem, and the FDE’s first contribution is helping them see it clearly.
• You lead discovery with genuine curiosity, moving the conversation from stated requirements to underlying needs, and you build credibility through the depth of your understanding rather than the breadth of your pitch.
• Uncovers business drivers.
• Uncovers personal drivers.
• Surfaces constraints early.
• Aligns stakeholders.
• Asks strategic questions.
• Earns authority through depth.

What You'll Do

• Discover. Run workshops and process discovery with business and engineering stakeholders.
• Structure the process and the spec.
• Architect & design. Design agentic systems end to end.
• Build. Ship working systems — agents, multi-step automations, internal tooling, integration layers.
• Engineer the delivery system. Own CI/CD for what you build.
• Consult. Present to and defend decisions in front of CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and business leadership.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience with at least one mainstream production stack (TypeScript/Node.js, Python, Java, C#/.NET, or Go).
• 1 - 4 years of professional experience building and shipping LLM-powered and agentic AI systems beyond prototypes or demos.
• Advanced English is required.
• Successful completion of a four-year college degree is required.
• Hands-on experience with frontier AI developer tools including Cursor, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, or OpenAI Codex.
• Proven experience evaluating current-state environments and defining technical roadmaps.
• Demonstrated experience with APIs, service design, event-driven and distributed systems, and data modeling.
• Experience designing and owning CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of context and specification engineering to produce reliable AI output.
• Solid understanding of enterprise integration patterns.
• Track record of leading client-facing discovery calls.
• Skilled at exercising end-to-end delivery ownership.
• Ability to work through new and difficult issues.
• Forensic attention to detail.
• A positive mindset and a can-do attitude.
• Experience working on Agile / Scrum teams.
• Meaningful experience working on large, complex systems.
• Ability to take extreme ownership over your work.
• Ability to identify with the goals of FullStack's clients.

Strong Plus

• Production AI operations (Day 2).
• Prompt- and eval-level regression testing running in CI.
• Delivery in regulated environments.
• Pre-sales support.
• Process mining, operations analysis, or transformation consulting background.
• Client enablement and training.
• Prior consulting or agency environment.

Work Authorization Requirements

• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the country of this job posting on a full-time basis.
• FullStack will not sponsor applicants for work visas now or in the future.

Benefits

• Competitive pay.
• 100% remote work.
• The ability to work with leading startups and Fortune 500 companies.
• Continuing education opportunities.
• Opportunity to grow and expand your career.