Forward Deployed Engineer

Eudia

$160K — $200K *
Aerospace & Defense
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent technical experience.
  • Experience in deploying solutions in customer-facing or consulting environments.
  • Proficient use of AI tools, emphasizing leveraging technology for scale.
  • Entrepreneurial mindset, highly adaptable, and comfortable with ambiguity.
  • Ownership mentality with a focus on driving outcomes and collaboration.
  • Strong communication skills for bridging technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Passion for AI and transforming complex workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Build and deploy customer-tailored solutions that integrate complex workflows.
  • Design and implement custom configurations and integrations while maintaining platform integrity.
  • Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to identify and test impactful product features.
  • Engage with customers during demos and educational sessions to support successful adoption and troubleshoot issues.
  • Work across product, engineering, and go-to-market teams to enhance deliverables and customer satisfaction.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to shape AI-powered solutions in a customer-facing role.
  • Collaboration with diverse teams including engineering and product development.
  • Engagement in a dynamic and entrepreneurial work environment.
  • Chance to influence the future of products and customer relationships.
Full Job Description
Forward Deployed Engineer

Eudia | Palo Alto, CA
Opportunity for Impact

This is a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of engineering, AI, and customer delivery. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will partner directly with customers to transform their complex workflows and institutional knowledge into scalable, technology-driven solutions, while helping shape the future of our product.
About the Role

In this role, you will collaborate closely with customers, product, engineering, and go-to-market teams to deploy and scale AI-powered solutions. You will act as a bridge between customer stakeholders and technical teams, translating real-world operational workflows into impactful product capabilities.

This role is ideal for a highly adaptable, entrepreneurial engineer who thrives in customer-facing environments and is excited to leverage AI to solve complex problems at scale.
Key Responsibilities
  • Customer Solution Development: Build and deploy tailored solutions by translating customer institutional knowledge and requirements into scalable, technology-enabled workflows and integrations.
  • Technical Implementation: Design, develop, and deploy custom configurations, integrations, and features that address specific customer needs while maintaining platform integrity.
  • Product Collaboration: Partner closely with product and engineering teams to test features, identify high-impact use cases, and contribute ideas for new product capabilities. Act as a translator between customer needs and technical execution.
  • Customer Engagement & Enablement: Support customer-facing teams on calls and demos, educate users on product capabilities, validate use cases, troubleshoot technical issues, and drive successful adoption.
  • Cross-Functional Impact: Collaborate across product, engineering, and GTM teams to continuously improve the product and deliver exceptional customer outcomes.
What We're Looking For
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent technical experience.
  • Experience deploying solutions in customer-facing or consulting environments.
  • Strong user of AI tools, with a mindset of leveraging technology to scale impact.
  • Entrepreneurial, highly adaptable, and comfortable operating in ambiguity.
  • A relentless owner mindset. You proactively identify what needs to happen, align the right people, drive outcomes, and close the loop-even if the problem starts outside your lane.
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to bridge technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Excitement about AI and the opportunity to transform how complex work is done.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Subject matter expertise in Defense acquisitions and program management. Deep understanding of DoD procurement processes, FAR/DFARS regulations, and defense program lifecycle management is highly valued.
  • Active Secret Security Clearance (or ability to obtain one).
  • Experience working with government or defense sector clients.
  • Familiarity with compliance frameworks relevant to defense contracting (e.g., CMMC, ITAR, NIST 800-171).

Compensation Range: $160K - $200K

The posted salary range is based on our research for companies of our stage and size while in compliance with California law. This is a base salary compensation range and we encourage those who are interested to apply and have an initial discussion.

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