Forward Deployed Engineer

Venn

25d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll embed directly inside one of our enterprise clients as their AI transformation partner. You'll sit with their operations, marketing, and finance teams, find the deepest pain points in the business, and ship solutions in near real time, without waiting on a product roadmap.
The role works like a hands-on startup CTO operating inside a large organization: you'll walk into an ambiguous problem space, figure out what actually matters, build it, ship it, and own the outcome, with the leverage of Venn's platform, data position, and engineering organization behind you.

Requirements

• You think like a founder. When you walk into a customer, you're curious about the business, digging into what's broken, and figuring out what to build that doesn't yet exist. You're scrappy and resourceful, you move fast enough to learn, and you're as comfortable in a strategic discussion with a CEO as you are deep in a codebase. You've shipped actual products that real people use, that drove real outcomes - and you want to do it at a higher level of ambition.
• 0-to-1 build track record: You've built production software from scratch in ambiguous environments. You can point to something that didn't exist before you showed up and is now used by real people at scale.
• Production AI experience: You've shipped AI-powered solutions in the real world - prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks, deployment at scale. Not just prototypes.
• 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience that includes customer-facing work.
• Demonstrated proficiency writing and reviewing production-grade code across frontend and backend using Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks.
• Have scoped and delivered complex systems in fast-moving or ambiguous environments.
• You simplify complexity and make fast, sound decisions under pressure.
• You communicate clearly with engineers, product teams, and customer stakeholders.
• You spot risks early and adjust without slowing down.
• Ability to travel up to 25% to work on-site with clients.

Nice To Haves

• Experience as a founder, at a top-tier technology company, or in a forward deployed engineering role.
• A technical degree in CS, engineering, math, or a related field.
• Experience driving technology adoption inside large enterprises.

Responsibilities

• Embed with the client. Go deep on their organization, stakeholders, tech stack, and business model to find where the highest-value problems live, and win trust fast by solving the most urgent one first.
• Build and ship independently. Design, build, and release solutions end-to-end on top of Venn's platform and the client's centralized data. No squad, no hand-holding.
• Shape the roadmap. Work directly with client stakeholders to decide what gets built first, second, and third, then execute it yourself.
• Own the outcome. Bring what you learn in the field back into Venn, and see your best solutions scale beyond the first client. You care whether it worked, not just whether it shipped.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed