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Sr. Director, Forward Deployed Engineering
Scale AIAI Infrastructure company
New York, United States$285,200 - $356,500 USDDirector
Accel
Y Combinator
Founders Fund
Index Ventures
Coatue
Meta
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Lead enterprise customer engagements and AI system deployments for Scale AI.
- •Director, Forward Deployed Engineering (US East) will lead Scale’s enterprise customer engagements across the Eastern United States, focusing on designing, building, and deploying AI-powered systems that deliver measurable business outcomes.
- •Key Responsibilities Lead all US East enterprise customer engagements as the senior technical and delivery executive.
- •Build and manage forward-deployed teams of applied scientists and full-stack engineers.
- •Own end-to-end delivery execution for customer deployments, ensuring reliability and business impact.
- •Lead senior-level technical conversations with customer executives.
- •Hire, develop, and mentor forward-deployed leaders and ICs.
- •Requirements 12+ years of experience in software engineering, applied ML, or AI systems, with significant leadership responsibility.
- •Proven experience leading customer-facing technical teams delivering complex systems for large enterprise customers.
- •Executive presence and credibility with senior Fortune 500 stakeholders.
- •Strong technical foundation in either applied machine learning or full-stack / distributed systems engineering.
- •Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous customer needs into concrete technical solutions.
Required skills
LLMsEngineering ManagementPythonJavaScriptAWSGoogle CloudAzureDockerKubernetesGit
Domain expertise
aideveloper-toolsconsulting
Benefits & perks
equity, health insurance, dental insurance, vision coverage, retirement benefits, learning and development stipend, generous PTO, commuter stipend
Tech stack
PythonJavaScriptLLMsAWSGoogle CloudAzureDockerKubernetesGit