{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"01e5cbb603f4821c3b88ec1b","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/01e5cbb603f4821c3b88ec1b","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/01e5cbb603f4821c3b88ec1b","title":"Forward-Deployed Software Engineer","description":"Workhelix is a tech-enabled services company with a single goal: helping organizations get the most out of their AI investments.\r\nOur people and software combine to give leaders answers to the three critical questions about the business value of AI:\r\nWhere are our top opportunities to create value with AI?\r\nAre our current efforts actually delivering? What's their ROI?\r\nHow can we accelerate and increase the benefits of our AI?\r\nTo find answers for each customer, Workhelix applies our unmatched expertise in economics, AI, and data science. We have pioneered a task-scoring method to identify top GenAI opportunities, ensuring clear, data-driven deployment strategies. Our ROI monitoring suite applies Nobel Prize-winning economics to provide accurate, ongoing insights into the impact of GenAI implementations. Renowned AI and Economics thinkers including Andrew Ng, Andy McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson stand proudly behind our mission.\r\nWe maintain a culture established on five key principles. For more information on our leadership principles, please visit the careers page of our website.\r\nRole As a Forward-Deployed Software Engineer (FDSE) at Workhelix, you'll work directly with enterprise clients to solve high-impact data and engineering challenges. You'll embed with client teams to understand legacy systems, extract and transform complex datasets, and build scalable solutions that answer the three critical questions leaders have for us.\r\nThis role is technical first: you'll write production-grade code, build data pipelines, and integrate with messy real-world systems. You'll be critical to our mission of delivering actionable insights by ensuring our software works seamlessly in diverse enterprise environments.\r\nWe expect our engineers to bring deeper technical experience—this is not an entry-level or rotational role. You'll need at least 5 years of experience building software, ideally in environments where understanding the business context matters. You may be a good fit if you've been in any of the following roles: Sales Engineer, Technical Consultants, Customer facing Software Engineers, Developer Advocates or Technical Evangelist.\r\nKey Responsibilities: What You'll Do\r\nClient-Embedded Engineering\r\nDeploy on-site or work closely with client engineering teams to extract data from enterprise systems (e.g., ERPs, data warehouses, SaaS tools).\r\nNavigate unfamiliar systems and architectures to identify the best technical path forward, often with incomplete documentation or limited access.\r\nOwn end-to-end implementation of technical solutions—from data extraction and transformation to integration with the Workhelix platform.\r\nSoftware & Infrastructure Development\r\nWrite clean, efficient, and maintainable code in Python, SQL, and other languages as needed.\r\nBuild and deploy data pipelines, APIs, and internal tooling to support analytics and modeling workflows.\r\nDevelop connectors and integrations with third-party systems, ensuring robustness and scalability.\r\nNavigate legacy codebases to diagnose customer issues and contribute fixes when needed.\r\nProblem Solving in the Real World\r\nPartner with customer stakeholders (technical and non-technical) to deeply understand their systems, workflows, and pain points.\r\nDecompose vague or ambiguous problems into tractable engineering tasks with measurable impact.\r\nBalance speed and quality—know when to build quick scrappy prototypes and when to harden systems for scale.\r\nCross-Functional Execution\r\nCollaborate with Workhelix's data scientists, strategists, and platform engineers to deliver end-to-end solutions that drive business outcomes.\r\nSurface client insights that inform our product roadmap and internal tooling priorities.\r\nContribute to internal playbooks, libraries, and reusable assets that increase the velocity of future deployments.\r\nRequirements: 5+ years of professional software development experience, ideally in data-heavy environments or full-stack roles.\r\nFluency in Python and SQL , with experience working across a range of data storage systems (e.g., Postgres, Snowflake, BigQuery).\r\nDemonstrated ability to operate in ambiguous environments and deliver working software within real-world constraints.\r\nStrong communication skills—you can collaborate directly with client engineers and translate between technical and business domains.\r\nExperience with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP) and deployment best practices is a plus.\r\nWillingness to travel occasionally to client sites (typically U.S.-based Fortune 1000 companies).\r\nWhat You'll Get\r\nCompetitive compensation package and benefits.\r\nChance to learn and collaborate with some of the most famous researchers in the AI and digital economy space: Andrew Ng, Erik Brynjolfsson, Andy McAfee, and Daniel Rock.\r\nThe unique opportunity to help build a company, culture, and products from the ground up with a team that values healthy working practices.\r\nA high-trust, high-autonomy work environment.\r\nAt Workhelix, we stand committed to ensuring an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available without any discrimination. 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