Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Reqroute, Inc is hiring a Lead AI Engineer to serve as a Forward Deployed Engineer. The role focuses on customer-embedded technical delivery, enterprise integrations, proof-of-value development, production deployment, troubleshooting, and collaboration with customers, product managers, and engineers.
Skills
- • 10+ years in Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, Sales Engineering, technical consulting , or a comparable hands-on, customer-embedded engineering role (scope and level matched to experience — see Levels & Compensation below)
- • Deep experience with REST APIs, GraphQL, Webhooks, SQL, and enterprise integrations
- • Strong technical fluency and the ability to collaborate deeply with Product Managers and Engineers as a peer , not a hand-off
- • A track record of managing multiple technical deployments simultaneously under delivery pressure
- • Comfort leading technical troubleshooting calls with customers and internal IT teams
- • Comfortable operating on both sides of the signature — building a credible proof-of-value under sales-cycle time pressure, and running that same system reliably in production afterward
- • You default to automation — you use AI and modern tooling to move faster, document better, and scale your own impact
- • Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguity into executable requirements, and to communicate insights clearly to both engineers and executives
- • Strong commercial awareness, stakeholder management, and the ability to operate effectively under delivery and revenue pressure
- • Background in high-growth SaaS, applied AI, or fintech/ERP/accounting-adjacent domains
- • Domain experience in one of our priority verticals — construction (job costing, WIP, retainage), nonprofit (fund accounting, grant and donor compliance), manufacturing (inventory, cost accounting, production workflows), wealth management (client billing, compliance/regulatory reporting, investment accounting), health care (revenue cycle, compliance-heavy financial operations), franchise (zee governance, zor performance), or field services (job/work-order costing, scheduling-linked billing)
- • You don't need more than one, but depth in any single vertical materially shortens ramp-up on real customer engagements
- • Non-traditional paths are a plus: veterans, former management consultants, competitive programmers, and PhDs have historically made excellent FDEs
- • Prior experience embedded at a customer site for a multi-month deployment (implementation consulting, forward-deployed, or field engineering background)
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