Forward Deployed Engineer
Hybrid (Foster City, CA), Hybrid (NYC (SoHo))$180k - $300kFull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Forward Deployed Engineer partnering with enterprise customers to design, build, and deploy Replit integrations and AI-powered workflows in complex environments, from concept through production.
Responsibilities
- Build with Customers: embed with strategic enterprise customers to design and build high-impact applications and AI-powered workflows on Replit, taking projects from initial concept through production deployment.
- Architect Enterprise Solutions: design secure, scalable architectures that connect Replit with customers’ existing systems, data, APIs, identity providers, and infrastructure.
- Integrate with the customer's stack: SSO, data warehouses, internal APIs, and SaaS systems.
- Own Technical Deployments: serve as the technical owner for complex enterprise implementations, identifying blockers, debugging issues, and driving projects through to successful production adoption.
- Bridge Customers and Product: translate field insights and needs into actionable feedback for product and engineering teams.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, and other Engineering teams to deliver high-quality experiences.
- Ship quickly and iterate based on customer feedback and usage data.
- Turn field patterns into templates, playbooks, and product requirements to ship best patterns back to the platform.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of software engineering experience building and deploying production software
- Strong programming skills and the ability to quickly understand and work across unfamiliar codebases, APIs, and technical environments
- Hands-on work with LLM applications in production: retrieval, tool calls, and evals
- Experience designing and owning complex technical systems from architecture through production
- Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments and independently drive technical projects to completion
- Strong technical communication skills and experience working directly with customers, partners, or cross-functional stakeholders
- Ability to translate business requirements and customer problems into pragmatic technical solutions
Skills
Required:Software engineeringLLM applications in production
Benefits
- Competitive Salary & Equity
- 401(k) Program with a 4% match (US Only)
- Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
- Short Term and Long Term Disability
- Paid Parental, Medical, Caregiver Leave
- Flexible Time Off (FTO) + Holidays
- Commuter Benefits (In-Office & US Only)
- Monthly Wellness Stipend
- Autonomous Work Environment
- In Office Set-Up Reimbursement (In-Office Only)
- Quarterly Team Gatherings
- In Office Amenities (In-Office Only)
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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