Lead Forward Deployed Engineer

About Us:

 

At Liatrio, we enable real transformation. We help industry-leading enterprises break free from legacy systems and adopt AI that reshapes how teams build, deliver, and thrive at scale.

 

We partner directly with enterprise teams to embed AI-native practices into delivery by accelerating modernization, reducing risk, and shipping production-grade AI systems that set the standard for the industry.

 

Our people embed directly inside client organizations, leading hands-on AI enablement and transformations that reshape how entire enterprises build and operate at scale.
 

If you’re ready to lead real AI transformation, this is where you belong.

About the Role :

We are seeking Lead Forward Deployed Engineers who thrive on shipping production software, solving complex systems problems, and pioneering AI-first engineering workflows.

As a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you own the technical execution and architecture for your workstream. Leading a small team of engineers, you will deliver high-impact software while embedded directly within client engineering teams. In this role, you will partner closely with client leadership and account leads to align delivery with strategic goals, model AI-first engineering practices, and elevate client teams through active pairing and mentorship.

What You'll Do:

• Owning the technical delivery, architecture, and code quality for your workstream: making key technical decisions, documenting tradeoffs, and ensuring the team builds coherent, maintainable systems

• Writing and reviewing production code across the full stack: setting the technical bar, reviewing PRs, and staying actively involved in direct implementation alongside your team

• Integrating AI and LLM capabilities into client applications: designing and implementing agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, intelligent automation, and AI-augmented developer tooling

• Pioneering AI-assisted software delivery: using advanced AI coding environments, LLM tooling, and agentic assistants to accelerate refactoring, code generation, and test writing in client codebases

• Enabling client engineering teams on AI-first practices: hands-on coaching and pairing with client developers to integrate AI coding assistants into their daily development workflows and culture

• Breaking down monolithic legacy applications into cloud-native microservices and event-driven architectures without taking critical systems offline

• Anticipating technical debt, delivery friction, and architectural risk early: establishing clear mitigation strategies, test automation standards, and CI/CD best practices

• Serving as the primary technical point of contact for your workstream: engaging directly with client engineering managers and technical directors on execution, delivery risk, and technical strategy

• Mentoring and uplifting client and Liatrio engineers: pairing on complex problems, conducting architectural reviews, breaking down complex tasks, and providing continuous feedback

• Partnering with account leadership and architects on technical scoping, statement of work (SOW) development, proof-of-concept (POC) demonstrations, and identifying expansion opportunities

Experience and Skills:

Engineering and Architecture

• You have a track record of owning technical execution and architectural direction for engineering teams in complex enterprise environments

• You've modernized large legacy applications, with practical experience applying, incremental refactoring, and event-driven decomposition under real constraints

• You are fluent across the full delivery stack (frontend, backend, APIs, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure) with genuine technical depth in multiple core areas

• You've designed and delivered cloud-native, distributed systems at enterprise scale: microservices, event-driven architectures, API gateways, and asynchronous messaging

• You possess strong practical knowledge of platform engineering, infrastructure as code, cloud platform adoption (Kubernetes, managed container services), and CI/CD delivery automation

• You know how to maintain a high engineering bar across a team: evaluating code, catching edge cases early, enforcing test standards, and driving velocity

AI and Intelligent Systems

• You've built or integrated production AI capabilities into real applications, understanding the end-to-end lifecycle from model integration and retrieval pipelines to observability and maintenance

• You actively model AI-augmented engineering workflows, leveraging modern AI coding tools as a daily multiplier for delivery speed and code quality

• You can speak credibly with client technical leadership about pragmatic AI adoption and where intelligent workflows create genuine, production-grade leverage

Requirements:

• 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with demonstrated technical leadership of engineering teams or workstreams

• Must be authorized to work in the United States or Canada without sponsorship

• Travel availability: 25% depending on client needs

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Liatrio is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity at our company and strive to create a culture of inclusion. We do not discriminate, nor do we tolerate harassment, on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.

 

We want our process to be accessible for everyone. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, or you require a religious accommodation, and you wish to discuss potential accommodations related to applying for employment at our company, please contact hello@liatrio.com .