Forward-Deployed Engineer
A senior engineer who ships from inside your business, not from a ticket queue.
Embeds with your team and your customers, translates messy real-world requirements into working AI product, and owns the last mile where most AI projects die.
EMBEDDED, NOT OUTSOURCED
WHAT THEY OWN
Concrete deliverables, not job-description poetry.
01
Customer-embedded discovery
Works directly with your users and stakeholders to define what the AI system must actually do.
02
End-to-end feature ownership
Owns a workstream from requirement to production, no handoff gaps.
03
Rapid production prototypes
Working software in days, validated against real data and real workflows.
04
Integration with your stack
Wires AI capability into your existing product, CRM, ERP, or internal tools.
05
Field feedback loops
Turns what users do (not what they say) into the next iteration.
06
Deployment & rollout support
Ships, monitors adoption, and hardens the path from pilot to org-wide use.
PRICING
Pick the level, keep the senior oversight.
Junior
$2,600 /month
or $16/hr on Time & Material
AI-native from day one
Mid-Level
MOST HIRED$3,800 /month
or $24/hr on Time & Material
Independent feature ownership
Senior
$4,800 /month
or $30/hr on Time & Material
Architecture & judgment
Dedicated engineers are billed monthly; Time & Material is billed hourly on tracked actuals. The free trial week applies to every dedicated hire.
YOU NEED THIS ROLE IF
Your AI pilots demo well but never reach production users
Requirements change faster than your vendor's sprint cycle
You need one accountable engineer, not a delivery committee
BY END OF WEEK ONE
Embedded in your standups, repo, and comms
Shadowed real users and mapped the actual workflow
Shipped a first working slice to a staging environment
Wrote down the risks nobody had said out loud
OUTCOMES YOU CAN MEASURE
AI features adopted by real users, not just demoed
Weeks-not-quarters iteration loops
One throat to choke for a whole workstream
Institutional knowledge documented, not hoarded
PAIRS WELL WITH