Forward Deployed Engineer

Remoteremotemid$200K$300K

Posted 3 days ago · via Workday

About this role

Job Description Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) – AI & Solutions As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you are part of an elite technical hybrid—part software engineer, part strategic consultant. You don't just sell the dream; you build the reality. You will be embedded with our most strategic customers to solve their most complex, high-stakes technical blockers. Whether it’s architecting a multi-layered AI agent, building custom data pipelines for Zendesk, or integrating our AI capabilities into a legacy tech stack, you are the "boots on the ground" builder who ensures our technology delivers measurable ROI. What You’ll Do Drive Outcomes and own the "Last Mile" of AI: Lead complex end-to-end deployments of Zendesk’s AI Agents and LLM-powered workflows.…

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