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Forward Deployed Engineer

Speakeasy· Engineering
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San Francisco$180k - $230kFull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Forward Deployed Engineers collaborate with customers, product, and engineering to deploy Speakeasy's AI Control Plane in production, bridging pre-sales, deployment, and product feedback with hands-on technical work.

Responsibilities

  • Drive Technical Sales: Partner with Account Executives on strategic customer opportunities
  • Lead technical discovery and architecture conversations with prospective customers
  • Design and deliver demos, proofs-of-concept, and pilot implementations
  • Help customers evaluate how Speakeasy fits into their AI, security, and infrastructure strategy
  • Translate customer requirements into deployment plans and product feedback
  • Serve as the technical owner for complex opportunities from evaluation through production rollout
  • Deploy and Integrate: Lead customer implementations of the Speakeasy AI Control Plane
  • Design integrations with APIs, MCP servers, SaaS platforms, identity providers, and internal systems
  • Build prototypes, proofs-of-concept, and deployment architectures
  • Troubleshoot complex technical issues across customer environments
  • Partner With Customers: Act as a trusted technical advisor to engineering, platform, security, and AI teams
  • Translate customer requirements into technical solutions
  • Guide customers through architecture decisions and implementation tradeoffs
  • Drive successful production rollouts and long-term adoption
  • Build strong relationships with engineering leaders, platform teams, security teams, and AI stakeholders
  • Shape the Product: Identify patterns across customer deployments
  • Influence product roadmap and prioritization
  • Work directly with engineering to improve platform capabilities
  • Create reusable deployment patterns, documentation, and best practices
  • Build: Write production-quality code when needed
  • Build internal tooling and deployment accelerators
  • Create reference implementations and demos
  • Prototype new product ideas alongside customers

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience
  • Have built or deployed APIs, developer platforms, infrastructure products, or security systems
  • Experience working directly with customers in technical environments
  • Ability to quickly understand unfamiliar systems and navigate ambiguity
  • Enjoy solving open-ended problems with incomplete information
  • Strong communication skills and can explain complex technical concepts clearly
  • Care deeply about customer outcomes

Skills

Required:Technical SalesSystem IntegrationCustomer EngagementSoftware Development

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • 401(k)
  • Flexible PTO
  • Regular company offsites
  • Offices in San Francisco and London
  • Small team, high ownership, significant impact
Last updated Jul 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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