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Forward Deployed Engineer

Arcade AI, Inc.· Sales
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$230k - $300kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Technical sales engineer role focused on designing architectures and prototypes for enterprise customers, bridging AI capabilities with real-world actions, and driving technical wins in high-value deals.

Responsibilities

  • Act as the Technical Authority: Partner with AEs to lead technical discovery and evaluations with Head of AI, CTO, and Architect personas.
  • Build the "Art of the Possible": Design and build custom prototypes, PoCs, and reference architectures that show exactly how our infrastructure enables real-world AI actions.
  • Simplify the Complex: Take abstract infrastructure, middleware, and API concepts and turn them into clear, value-driven solutions for customers.
  • Field-to-Product Loop: Act as the eyes and ears of the market, funneling deep technical feedback back to our Product and Engineering teams to shape the roadmap. We build our product like a private open-source project; if a feature or fix is needed to unblock a deployment, you are empowered to make it happen. You can take customer learnings to create working prototypes and systems that can eventually become part of the core platform.
  • Drive Technical Wins: Navigate complex technical hurdles in deal cycles ranging from $200K+ to seven figures.
  • Master the AI Stack: Stay at the bleeding edge of the ecosystem (LangChain, LlamaIndex, Vector DBs) to consult customers on their broader AI strategy.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience as a Pre-Sales/Solutions Engineer, Solutions Architect, or technical consultant who has sold highly technical infrastructure (Databases, Security, Integration, or Cloud).
  • Deep Integration & Systems Architecture Fluency: experience connecting enterprise systems (iPaaS, ETL/ELT, RPA, API gateways/service mesh).
  • Hands-on Technical Chops: comfortable with APIs, SDKs, and coding in modern languages (Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, etc.).
  • Curiosity & Business Acumen: ability to understand business impact and explain concepts to executives without losing technical detail.
  • Evangelist Mindset: willing to present, create technical content, and speak at conferences.
  • AI-Forward Mindset: actively use AI in daily workflows and master the agentic landscape.

Skills

Required:Integration and systems architectureAPIs, SDKs, modern languagesCommunication & storytellingAgentic AI ecosystem knowledge

Benefits

  • Compensation is aligned with experience and performance.
  • Equity
  • Competitive benefits
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Arcade AI, Inc.

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