Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Akkio • ,

7d • Remote

About The Position

Akkio is the AI infrastructure that powers agentic workflows across media companies. By running on-premises within agency cloud environments and sitting directly on top of data, Akkio enables organizations to productionize AI at enterprise scale, automating campaign workflows while maintaining complete security and governance control. Our approach already powers some of the biggest names in media. Havas is building agentic AI into Converged.AI, its global operating system, in partnership with Akkio. Horizon Media strengthened its blu. platform with Akkio. Mediaplus built Plus.AI, its global AI media planning system, on our infrastructure. LG Ad Solutions uses Akkio to unlock real-time intelligence from ACR data. We're a small, fast-growing team, and every person here shapes what media's biggest players do next. We build with AI the way we expect our partners to run on it: aggressively, thoughtfully, and in production. Agentic coding is foundational to how our engineering team works. Our engineers orchestrate coding agents to move from idea to shipped product at a pace that would be impossible by hand, and they hold that output to a high bar for quality, testing, and reliability. If you've rebuilt your workflow around agents, maintaining context files for your repos, running agents on real production work, publishing MCP servers, or rethinking how code review works when an agent writes the first draft, you'll feel at home. If you're still evaluating whether AI coding tools are ready, this probably isn't the right role.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience across the stack, with a track record of delivering complex projects in customer-facing, consulting, or forward deployed environments
• You've deeply integrated AI coding into your daily workflow; agents are your default way of building, not an occasional assist and you can speak concretely about how you direct them, where they fail, and how you verify their output
• You thrive on ownership: you've repeatedly taken loosely defined or shifting requirements and delivered great products anyway, filling gaps with judgment rather than waiting for direction
• A generalist's range: strong production Python, working fluency with SQL and cloud data platforms, and comfort picking up unfamiliar systems, APIs, and tools quickly
• Experience building and debugging production systems in environments you didn't design, with proper monitoring, alerting, and documentation
• Strong background with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, and/or Azure) and modern DevOps practices
• Excellent communication skills; equally comfortable presenting to C-level executives and debugging code with engineers
• Excited by customer-facing work and energized by seeing your solutions drive real business impact
• Strong bias to execution coupled with high engineering standards and attention to detail

Nice To Haves

• Public artifacts of your agentic workflow: CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md context files in your repos, published MCP servers, agent co-authored commit history, or writing about how you build with agents
• Hands-on experience building with large language models: evals, tool use, agent orchestration, or LLM-powered product features
• Deep experience with a major cloud data platform (Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks) and orchestration tools like dbt or Airflow
• Previous forward deployed, solutions engineering, or technical consulting experience at an enterprise software company
• Familiarity with the media, advertising, or marketing analytics domain
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Understanding of security best practices for handling sensitive data
• Previous early-stage startup experience

Responsibilities

• Embed directly with media agency customers to understand their infrastructure, workflows, and business objectives
• Own end-to-end technical delivery of customer implementations, from initial scoping through production deployment and ongoing optimization
• Build across the stack as the problem demands: integrations and data workflows connecting customer systems to Akkio, backend services, agent and workflow configurations, and the occasional internal tool that unblocks a customer team
• Multiply your output with agentic coding and help raise the bar for how forward deployed work gets built and delivered
• Navigate diverse technical environments and adapt solutions to each customer's existing infrastructure
• Establish trusted advisor relationships with customer technical and business stakeholders
• Implement security and compliance measures that protect sensitive customer data
• Feed learnings from customer deployments back to the product team to influence platform roadmap and feature development
• Travel regularly to customer sites for onboarding, implementation sprints, and strategic planning sessions
• Set engineering standards for code quality and testing in an agent-assisted codebase, and mentor teammates on both
• Communicate project milestones and progress clearly to stakeholders as requirements evolve

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) plan
• Generous PTO policy
• Substantial equity grants

What This Job Offers

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