Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
Posted 11hrs ago
Employment Information
Report this job
Job expired or something wrong with this job?
Job Description
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer working with engineering teams of enterprise software companies. Delivering production outcomes and contributing to Vista's Product & Technology Practice.
Responsibilities:
- Embed with company engineering teams for focused 8 to 24 week engagements
- Own delivery end to end
- Work inside their repos, CI/CD, security review, and code standards
- Leave behind systems their teams can operate, extend, and trust
- Build advanced CodeGen and agentic workflows including custom subagents, skills, MCP servers, eval harnesses, background agents, and PR review automation
- Implement evals, guardrails, observability, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints sized to risk
- Pair program and prompt alongside their engineers as a teaching mechanism
- Partner with engineering leadership to scope high-leverage opportunities with clear business metrics and acceptance criteria
- Contribute patterns, accelerators, and reference implementations back to Vista's shared FDE and AI Ops playbooks for reuse across the portfolio
Requirements:
- 7 to 10 years of production software engineering experience
- 3+ years of sustained, daily use of frontier AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Devin, or equivalent) on production work
- Demonstrated success driving AI or automation transformation at the enterprise level
- Comfort ramping quickly across languages and stacks (Python, Java, Go, TypeScript, C#, and others)
- Cloud infrastructure depth on AWS, Azure, or GCP, plus containerization, CI/CD, and observability
- Prior FDE, embedded solutions engineering, technical consulting, staff product engineering, or early-stage startup engineering experience
- Willingness to travel 35% to 50%.
Benefits:
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Annual cash bonus

















