Corteva Agriscience

Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer

Corteva Agriscience$100K — $130K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proven ability to deliver production software solutions end-to-end.
  • Full-stack development expertise covering front-end, back-end, APIs, data, and cloud applications.
  • Experience with agentic AI tools to enhance development speed and quality.
  • Ability to collaborate deeply with business leaders across functions.
  • Strong skills in translating technical decisions into business outcomes.
  • Prior experience in senior engineering roles or solution architecture.
  • Domain knowledge in agriculture, biotechnology, or enterprise functions.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with Senior Forward Deployed Engineers to develop effective business solutions.
  • Embed within business functions to understand workflows and challenges.
  • Identify key opportunities before developing solutions, focusing on measurable success.
  • Build comprehensive solutions, integrating AI components where necessary.
  • Maintain engagement post-deployment for long-term impact and growth.
  • Direct and oversee agent performance rather than writing most code personally.
  • Share insights and efficiencies across the FDE group to enhance team capability.
  • Advocate for commonly needed solutions to create shared infrastructure for future use.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and skill enhancement.
  • Purpose-driven work contributing to global betterment.
  • Immediate health benefits for employee and family.
  • Generous leave policy including four weeks of PTO and two weeks of well-being pay.
  • Comprehensive parental leave policy of at least 16 weeks for all parents.
  • Competitive retirement savings and tuition reimbursement options.
Full Job Description

What You’ll Do:

  • Partner with Sr. Forward Deployed Engineers to deliver solutions to the business while learning the critical aspects to operate independently as a FDE.

  • Embed with a business function as their forward-deployed partner. Build genuine fluency in their workflows, edge cases, and judgment calls — the things no spec captures.

  • Frame the problem before reaching for a solution. Identify highest-leverage opportunities, set measurable baselines, and align on success before writing code.

  • Build the right solution end-to-end: full-stack apps, services, integrations, pipelines, automations. Add agentic AI components — multi-step workflows, tool use, retrieval, evals, guardrails — when the problem calls for it, and not when it doesn’t.

  • Ship to production and stay engaged as a long-term partner. The function should grow more capable over time with you alongside them — durable impact, not a clean exit.

  • You conduct and supervise agents by default. If you find yourself writing most of the code yourself, you are doing it wrong. Your leverage comes from orchestrating multiple agents in parallel, reviewing their output critically, and steering them toward production-quality results.

  • Make learnings compound across the FDE group. Every engagement produces patterns, components, and lessons the next FDE inherits — we get sharper as a team with each problem we solve.

  • Promote common needs into Corteva’s shared platform. When the same problem shows up across functions — auth, evals, agent orchestration, data access, observability — turn it into reusable infrastructure so the next FDE does not rebuild it.

  • Help shape the FDE practice itself — recruiting bar, engagement playbooks, technical standards, and mentorship — and take on the most ambiguous, highest-stakes engagements as your scope grows.

What Skills You Need:

  • Track record of shipping production software end-to-end. You write code — and direct agents to write code — that other engineers want to inherit.

  • Full-stack range across front-end, back-end, APIs, data, and cloud. Strong instincts on architecture and trade-offs; solid operational practices (observability, testing, CI/CD).

  • You build with agentic AI, not around it. AI coding tools are part of how you work every day, and you ship faster and at higher quality because of it.

  • Hands-on building agentic components when warranted: modern LLMs, tool use, retrieval, multi-step workflows, evals, and guardrails. Sharp judgment about when to use AI and when not to.

  • You sit with a finance lead, a procurement director, or a seed-production manager and earn trust quickly. You ask sharp questions and listen.

  • Translate fluently between business outcomes and technical decisions — P&L impact, cycle time, throughput, and risk are first-class concerns. Comfort with ambiguity: walk into an undefined problem, leave with a sharp problem statement, baseline, and plan.

  • Prior experience as a Senior level engineer, Solutions Architect, or other senior level engineering role.

  • Background in agriculture, seed production, seed product development, biotechnology, or other broad scale enterprise G&A function.

Benefits – How We’ll Support You:

  • Numerous development opportunities offered to build your skills.

  • Be part of a company with a higher purpose and contribute to making the world a better place.

  • Health benefits for you and your family on your first day of employment.

  • Four weeks of paid time off and two weeks of well-being pay per year, plus paid holidays.

  • Excellent parental leave which includes a minimum of 16 weeks for mother and father.

  • Future planning with our competitive retirement savings plan and tuition reimbursement program.

  • Learn more about our total rewards package here - .

  • Check out life at Corteva! .

Are you a good match? Apply today!

About Corteva Agriscience

Corteva Agriscience brings you the world's most recognized and premium agricultural solutions, featuring Pioneer® and Brevant™ Seeds, award-winning Crop Protection products, Encirca, and Granular software tools and services. they provide agronomic support and services to help increase farmer productivity and profitability. they strive to develop sustainable and efficient global food systems that benefit everyone.

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Size
21,000 employees
Market Cap
$42.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$681 million
5 Year Trend
+2.4%
Revenue
$14.2 billion
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