Software Engineer, FOX Forward Deployed
About The Position
FOX Forward Deployed is an 12-month rotational program that embeds early-career engineers inside the teams responsible for FOX’s biggest, most-watched moments. You will complete two six-month deployments across Streaming, Sports, News, AI systems, and shared platforms. You will contribute directly to production systems used by millions. This is not a shadow program. As a Software Engineer in the FOX Forward Deployed program, you will rotate across two engineering teams embedded within core business units across Sports, News, FOX One, AI, Revenue Platforms, and shared platform organizations. You will work inside the teams that own the systems, partnering directly with engineers, product leaders, AI specialists, and business stakeholders to solve real operational problems and ship alongside them. You will design, build, and deploy production systems that power consumer facing products and enterprise platforms across the FOX ecosystem. From live sports and breaking news to AI systems and shared infrastructure, you will operate in high visibility environments where performance, reliability, scale, deadlines, and real time delivery are non-negotiable. Systems must perform under pressure, and your work will have a measurable impact. You will operate in an AI native engineering environment leveraging agentic development platforms such as Claude Code, Codex, Replit, Loveable, OpenHands, Letta, Devin, Kiro, and Windsurf, alongside enterprise AI and data platforms including AWS Bedrock, SageMaker, Vertex AI, Databricks,, and Palantir to accelerate production delivery at scale.
Requirements
- Strong foundations in software engineering fundamentals
- Evidence of building and shipping projects (coursework, internships, independent work, open-source contributions)
- Demonstrated use of AI-native development tools (e.g., Cursor, Replit, ChatGPT, Codex, Claude Code, Opencode, Droid) to accelerate building, debugging, or prototyping workflows.
- Comfort learning unfamiliar systems and navigating ambiguity
- Bias toward shipping and iteration
- Clear communication skills
Nice To Haves
- Experience contributing to production systems serving real users
- Exposure to cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or data platforms
- Familiarity with streaming, media, AI/ML systems, or platform security domains
- AWS, GCP, Azure experience
- Experience contributing to an open source project
- Experience building with agentic frameworks (Langchain, AI SDK, Agents SDK, Mastra, Claude SDK) and shaping LLM outputs to fit business needs
- Experience building custom GPTs, Gems, Replit Apps, Loveable Apps
- Fullstack development experience (Frontend, Backend, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity)
- Experience navigating large, unfamiliar codebases
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship production services, APIs, and platform components
- Contribute to live systems powering consumer-facing apps and enterprise platforms
- Partner with product and engineering to deliver end-to-end solutions
- Operate under real latency, scale, reliability, and business constraints
- Improve systems through iteration, feedback, and measurable outcomes
Benefits
- medical/dental/vision
- insurance
- a 401(k) plan
- paid time off
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
