{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"4d8948d7d384b80ef1ccc6a4","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/4d8948d7d384b80ef1ccc6a4","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/4d8948d7d384b80ef1ccc6a4","title":"Forward Deployed Engineer (US Based)","description":"Forward Deployed Engineer\nAbout the role\nFDEs are how Duvo brings AI to life inside our customers. You sit at the front line, map their workflows on the Duvo platform, improve the underlying processes, and turn the result into running agents that deliver tangible business impact. Scoping, build, debug, handover, expansion. You own the customer outcome end to end and you own the relationship that goes with it.\nYou won't write the core product. You will write the glue: integration scripts, agent configurations, data transformations, prototypes, whatever it takes to get an agent running against a customer's actual systems. You'll spend real time inside their stack and inside their team.\nIf you like the messy middle between AI, process, and customer, this is the role.\nYou will be deployed directly with our clients, mostly in onsite/hybrid mode of work, you will travel a lot.\nWhat you'll do\nEmbed with customers from kickoff through go-live and beyond\nMap customer workflows directly on the Duvo platform and decide what's worth automating, what's worth fixing first, and what's blocked\nImprove the underlying processes where it matters. Don't automate broken flows, redesign them\nTranslate business logic into agent behavior: actions, decision rules, exception paths, fallbacks\nConfigure and ship agents against real customer systems (ERPs, portals, spreadsheets, email, custom tools)\nWrite integration code, scripts, and prototypes when the situation calls for it\nDebug live agents in production environments and iterate quickly\nBuild and own the working relationship with customer stakeholders, from operators to sponsors\nRun working sessions, hold your own with technical counterparts, and earn the right to push back\nMake AI real for the customer. Move them from pilot energy to measurable business outcomes\nCapture reusable patterns, templates, and runbooks so the next deployment is faster\nSend recurring workflow patterns back to Product and Engineering as real signal\nWhat success looks like\nMultiple agents in production across clients, with measurable business impact\nCustomers point to specific KPIs that moved because of your work\nCustomers treat you as a trusted operator and want you in the room\nProcess improvements you drove are visible in the customer's day-to-day, not just in the agent\nTransformation Managers want you on their hardest accounts\nAccounts you own expand because the relationship and the results are both there\nEach deployment is faster than the last because you've left behind reusable assets\nWho you are\nExperience\n5+ years in roles where you've shipped against real customer environments. We're prioritizing AI-native candidates: people who have been building, deploying, or operating AI and agentic systems in customer-facing settings, not adjacent to them.\nLikely backgrounds:\nForward-deployed engineering or solutions engineering at an AI-first company\nApplied AI / ML engineering with direct customer exposure\nTechnical consulting on AI or automation projects where you owned delivery and the client relationship\nOperations or product roles where you've built and shipped AI-powered tooling against messy real-world systems\nRetail, e-commerce, or CPG background is a strong plus. Fluency in any operational domain (supply chain, procurement, category management, merchandising, finance ops, supplier management, warehousing) helps you ramp faster on customer accounts. What matters most is that you can pick up a new business quickly, see how to improve it, and build something with AI that actually works.\nSkills\nHands-on with modern AI tooling: LLMs, agent frameworks, prompt engineering, evals, MCP, retrieval\nStrong systems thinking and engineering judgment\nProcess design instinct. You can spot waste, redundancy, and bad handoffs and propose something better\nComfortable in code-adjacent territory: SQL, Python or JS scripting, APIs, JSON, webhooks, light data work\nFamiliarity with ERPs and enterprise stacks is a plus\nAble to lead a working session, manage a stakeholder, push back on bad scope, and explain trade-offs without hiding behind jargon\nFluent English. Additional European languages are a plus\nMindset\nBias to ship\nComfortable with ambiguity, half-built systems, and changing requirements\nLow ego, high standards\nCustomer-obsessed. You build trust by being useful, not by being polished\nCommercially aware and able to help customers believe in what you're building\nHonest about what's working and what isn't\nWhat we offer\nA small, sharp team that values ownership and candor\nReal product and culture leverage from day one\nCustomer-facing impact: your work ships and moves the business\nCompetitive comp including equity\nOption to trade cash for equity\nHow we hire\nWe respect your time and aim to move fast:\nDiscovery call with a senior teammember (online, 30 min). We'll talk about you, how you think and whether there's mutual fit.\nRemote task (async, time-boxed, ~1 hour). Build a small product end-to-end. Not LeetCode.\nDeep dive to the remote task with hiring manager (online, ~1 hour). We'll go deeper on your experience, system design, product thinking, and collaboration. No trick questions — we want to see how you think and build.\nTrial day (online or onsite, 1 day)\nFounder interview (online, 20min)\nWe're not looking for perfection. We're looking for someone who can walk into a customer's operation, figure out what matters, fix the process, ship the agent, and turn AI into outcomes the business can feel.","company":"Duvo","rawCompany":"duvo","city":"Denver","state":"CO","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-15T13:40:02.483Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"17-2199.00","title":"Engineers, All Other","slug":"engineers-all-other"}],"industries":[{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Forward Deployed Engineer (US Based)","description":"Forward Deployed Engineer\nAbout the role\nFDEs are how Duvo brings AI to life inside our customers. You sit at the front line, map their workflows on the Duvo platform, improve the underlying processes, and turn the result into running agents that deliver tangible business impact. Scoping, build, debug, handover, expansion. You own the customer outcome end to end and you own the relationship that goes with it.\nYou won't write the core product. You will write the glue: integration scripts, agent configurations, data transformations, prototypes, whatever it takes to get an agent running against a customer's actual systems. You'll spend real time inside their stack and inside their team.\nIf you like the messy middle between AI, process, and customer, this is the role.\nYou will be deployed directly with our clients, mostly in onsite/hybrid mode of work, you will travel a lot.\nWhat you'll do\nEmbed with customers from kickoff through go-live and beyond\nMap customer workflows directly on the Duvo platform and decide what's worth automating, what's worth fixing first, and what's blocked\nImprove the underlying processes where it matters. Don't automate broken flows, redesign them\nTranslate business logic into agent behavior: actions, decision rules, exception paths, fallbacks\nConfigure and ship agents against real customer systems (ERPs, portals, spreadsheets, email, custom tools)\nWrite integration code, scripts, and prototypes when the situation calls for it\nDebug live agents in production environments and iterate quickly\nBuild and own the working relationship with customer stakeholders, from operators to sponsors\nRun working sessions, hold your own with technical counterparts, and earn the right to push back\nMake AI real for the customer. Move them from pilot energy to measurable business outcomes\nCapture reusable patterns, templates, and runbooks so the next deployment is faster\nSend recurring workflow patterns back to Product and Engineering as real signal\nWhat success looks like\nMultiple agents in production across clients, with measurable business impact\nCustomers point to specific KPIs that moved because of your work\nCustomers treat you as a trusted operator and want you in the room\nProcess improvements you drove are visible in the customer's day-to-day, not just in the agent\nTransformation Managers want you on their hardest accounts\nAccounts you own expand because the relationship and the results are both there\nEach deployment is faster than the last because you've left behind reusable assets\nWho you are\nExperience\n5+ years in roles where you've shipped against real customer environments. We're prioritizing AI-native candidates: people who have been building, deploying, or operating AI and agentic systems in customer-facing settings, not adjacent to them.\nLikely backgrounds:\nForward-deployed engineering or solutions engineering at an AI-first company\nApplied AI / ML engineering with direct customer exposure\nTechnical consulting on AI or automation projects where you owned delivery and the client relationship\nOperations or product roles where you've built and shipped AI-powered tooling against messy real-world systems\nRetail, e-commerce, or CPG background is a strong plus. Fluency in any operational domain (supply chain, procurement, category management, merchandising, finance ops, supplier management, warehousing) helps you ramp faster on customer accounts. What matters most is that you can pick up a new business quickly, see how to improve it, and build something with AI that actually works.\nSkills\nHands-on with modern AI tooling: LLMs, agent frameworks, prompt engineering, evals, MCP, retrieval\nStrong systems thinking and engineering judgment\nProcess design instinct. You can spot waste, redundancy, and bad handoffs and propose something better\nComfortable in code-adjacent territory: SQL, Python or JS scripting, APIs, JSON, webhooks, light data work\nFamiliarity with ERPs and enterprise stacks is a plus\nAble to lead a working session, manage a stakeholder, push back on bad scope, and explain trade-offs without hiding behind jargon\nFluent English. Additional European languages are a plus\nMindset\nBias to ship\nComfortable with ambiguity, half-built systems, and changing requirements\nLow ego, high standards\nCustomer-obsessed. You build trust by being useful, not by being polished\nCommercially aware and able to help customers believe in what you're building\nHonest about what's working and what isn't\nWhat we offer\nA small, sharp team that values ownership and candor\nReal product and culture leverage from day one\nCustomer-facing impact: your work ships and moves the business\nCompetitive comp including equity\nOption to trade cash for equity\nHow we hire\nWe respect your time and aim to move fast:\nDiscovery call with a senior teammember (online, 30 min). We'll talk about you, how you think and whether there's mutual fit.\nRemote task (async, time-boxed, ~1 hour). Build a small product end-to-end. Not LeetCode.\nDeep dive to the remote task with hiring manager (online, ~1 hour). We'll go deeper on your experience, system design, product thinking, and collaboration. No trick questions — we want to see how you think and build.\nTrial day (online or onsite, 1 day)\nFounder interview (online, 20min)\nWe're not looking for perfection. We're looking for someone who can walk into a customer's operation, figure out what matters, fix the process, ship the agent, and turn AI into outcomes the business can feel.","datePosted":"2026-08-15T13:40:02.483Z","dateModified":"2026-08-15T13:40:02.483Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Duvo","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Denver","addressRegion":"CO","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"4d8948d7d384b80ef1ccc6a4"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/4d8948d7d384b80ef1ccc6a4"}}