Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Forward develops a network digital twin platform that supports autonomous networking and helps teams understand the impact of network changes. The Senior Technical Marketing Engineer will drive adoption of Forward’s network automation capabilities by translating product features into customer workflows, technical content, demos, and field enablement while influencing product direction and market positioning.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Product Management to define, validate, and shape automation-related capabilities and use cases
- Design and evangelize customer workflows that realize the value of automation features, including NQE (Network Query Engine), APIs, and CI/CD-driven verification
- Enhance existing product integrations and build new ones to expand automation and interoperability across the broader network and IT ecosystem
- Build and maintain lab environments to support demos, technical validation, and automation use-case exploration
- Develop high-quality technical collateral for internal audiences, including training materials, demo guides, and sales enablement content
- Collaborate with Marketing to create external-facing assets such as whitepapers, solution briefs, blogs, presentations, and videos
- Enable Sales and Solutions teams with automation-focused demos, messaging, and technical training
- Represent Forward at customer meetings, webinars, and industry events, including networking and automation conferences and trade shows
- Contribute thought leadership on network automation trends and Forward's role in modern NetDevOps and intent-based networking architectures
- Gather field and market feedback to influence product roadmap and automation positioning
Skills
- 8+ years of experience as a Technical Marketing Engineer, Sales Engineer, Network Engineer, or similar customer-facing technical role
- Strong understanding of enterprise networking concepts, including routing, switching, and network change management
- Experience with NetDevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, or infrastructure-as-code workflows applied to networking
- Familiarity with source control (Git), API integration, and building automation against network data models
- Hands-on experience with network automation tooling and frameworks (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Python, REST APIs, or similar)
- Experience working with complex enterprise networks across on-prem, virtualized, and cloud environments
- Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform and familiarity with virtualization and containerized environments
- Proven ability to build and operate lab environments for demos and technical validation
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Networking, or a related field
- Ability to work effectively across Product, Sales, and Marketing teams
- Working knowledge of data query and transformation languages (e.g., GraphQL, JSONPath, or a query engine such as Forward's NQE)
- Familiarity with AI/ML concepts and hands-on experience exploring AI-driven use cases in network operations or data analysis
- Working knowledge of Linux administration
- Familiarity with Forward or similar network visibility, verification, or analytics platforms
- Experience presenting at conferences, webinars, or customer-facing technical events
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