Forward Deployed Engineer

Wipro•Plano, TX

About The Position

Wipro is hiring a Junior Forward Deployed Engineer to work at the intersection of customer strategy, product, AI architecture, data and engineering. The role involves identifying high-value business problems, shaping practical AI-enabled solutions, and collaborating with experienced FDEs, platform teams and engineers to configure, integrate, test and deploy AI-native products in customer environments across the United States or United Kingdom. The position is intended for a builder-minded professional who communicates well, enjoys tackling ambiguous business problems with technology, learns continuously, and supports solutions through production adoption and measurable value. The role includes customer discovery, translating business problems into testable hypotheses and measurable success criteria, and supporting AI solution design, platform selection, integration, evaluation and deployment readiness. The engineer contributes hands-on to prototypes, data analysis, workflow and prompt design, documentation, demonstrations and user-feedback cycles. They help ensure solutions are responsible, secure, reliable, observable and cost-aware, support customer adoption, capture field insights for reusable assets and product feedback, and communicate with business, technical and executive stakeholders. The posting also describes software development work, including understanding requirements, designing and maintaining software, coding, testing and debugging, automating validation, documenting work, reporting project status, coordinating with customers and teams, and supporting software quality and delivery. The listed locations are Plano, TX and Fresco, TX. Travel for customer engagements may be required based on business needs.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, AI or a closely related technical discipline.
At least 3 years of relevant experience in product engineering, technology consulting, AI/data solutions, digital products or enterprise technology; the posting separately lists 5–8 years of experience.
AI-native product development experience involving GenAI, LLMs, RAG, agentic systems, intelligent workflows or production AI applications.
Hands-on exposure to Python, SQL, APIs, cloud platforms, workflow automation, data pipelines, evaluation or observability.
Strong understanding of AI architecture, software and data engineering, APIs, cloud and the AI solution lifecycle.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to engage business, technical and executive stakeholders.
Builder mindset, structured problem-solving, high ownership and ability to solve business problems using technology.
Experience taking solutions from discovery and prototype through production deployment, adoption and measurable outcomes.
Passion for AI technology and its possibilities, with a quick and continuous learning orientation.
Understanding of Responsible AI, information security, data privacy, testing and AI economics.
Willingness and ability to travel for customer engagements based on business needs.
Mandatory skill: Croamis.

Nice To Haves

Business, management or related postgraduate degree following the technical degree.
Experience in a startup, product company or zero-to-one product-building environment.
Industry or domain knowledge, including understanding business processes, KPIs and operating constraints.
Strong academic record from leading or Ivy League colleges.

Responsibilities

Participate in customer discovery to understand users, workflows, pain points, data, systems, constraints and desired business outcomes.
Translate business problems into clear hypotheses, measurable success criteria, solution options and a small, production-oriented solution slice.
Apply knowledge of AI architecture and engineering to support solution design, platform selection, integration, testing, evaluation and deployment readiness.
Work with senior FDEs, product managers, architects and engineers to configure, customize and integrate Wipro AI-native platforms, agents and reusable accelerators.
Contribute to prototyping, data analysis, workflow design, prompt and context design, documentation, demonstrations and user-feedback cycles.
Help ensure solutions are responsible, secure, reliable, observable and cost-aware, with suitable human oversight, controls and fallback paths.
Drive work forward with urgency and ownership, proactively resolve issues and operate effectively in fast-moving customer and product environments.
Support customer adoption through enablement, workflow improvement and tracking usage, quality and business-value evidence.
Capture field insights and turn recurring customer needs into reusable assets, product feedback and roadmap inputs.
Communicate business and technical ideas through structured discussions, concise documents and executive-ready presentations.
Understand requirements and software design; develop software solutions by studying information needs, system flows, data usage and work processes.
Investigate problem areas, facilitate root-cause analysis, identify system-performance improvements and convert client requirements into feasible designs.
Code and develop software or modules, evaluate operational feasibility, and modify software to fix errors, adapt to hardware, improve performance or upgrade interfaces.
Develop and automate software validation processes, design test cases and execute them; ensure code is free of errors or bugs and address test failures.
Analyze information and recommend or plan installation of new systems or modifications to existing systems.
Prepare programming specifications, activity and status reports, documentation and project updates; ensure code submissions follow project, program or account standards and include clear descriptions and replication patterns.
Coordinate with the team on daily project status and progress, and provide feedback on usability and serviceability while reporting quality risks to stakeholders.
Capture client requirements and clarifications, obtain feedback regularly and support smooth, on-time delivery.
Consult with engineering staff on software-hardware interfaces and develop specifications and performance requirements.
Document and demonstrate solutions using materials such as flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.
Maintain quality customer interactions, respond to customer requests promptly and avoid internal or external complaints.
Participate in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, programming languages and ways to support team members.