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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, India

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IndiaFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with frontier AI labs, owning end-to-end customer deployments and collaborating across India and the US to design, build, and scale production systems for high-impact customer problems.

Responsibilities

  • Partner directly with frontier AI labs to understand complex technical challenges and translate them into scalable engineering solutions
  • Partner closely with Engineering, Research, Product, and Operations teams in the US to execute against a shared roadmap
  • Design, build, and deploy production-grade applications that solve high-impact customer problems
  • Own technical architecture for customer deployments with a focus on reliability, scalability, security, and maintainability
  • Rapidly prototype, test, and iterate on solutions based on customer feedback
  • Build reusable tools, frameworks, and deployment patterns that improve delivery across customer engagements
  • Mentor engineers through technical leadership, code reviews, and engineering best practices
  • Help establish a strong engineering culture as we continue building our India engineering organization

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Experience leading technically complex customer-facing, solutions engineering, or forward deployed engineering projects
  • Strong proficiency with TypeScript, React, and modern backend architectures
  • Deep understanding of relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL), system design, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure
  • Experience building and operating production systems on AWS or GCP
  • Strong technical judgment and the ability to solve complex engineering problems in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Experience collaborating effectively with globally distributed engineering teams, including teams based in the US

Skills

Required:TypeScriptReactRelational databases (PostgreSQL)System designCloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP)Communication & stakeholder management

Benefits

  • Generous Equity Grant vested over 4 years
  • Housing Bonus: 1.3 Lakhs spread throughout the first year
  • Well Defined Performance Bonus ranging between 10 - 100% of base
  • Medical Insurance Coverage
  • Food credit for every in person day.
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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