Forward Deployment Engineer

This role is for one of Weekday’s clients
Salary range: Rs 3000000 - Rs 6000000 (ie INR 30 - 60 LPA)

Min Experience: 5+ years
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
JobType: full-time

We are looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to work closely with a portfolio of high-growth companies

backed by a leading VC fund. The role sits at the intersection of AI engineering, enterprise architecture and business problem-solving.

You will work directly with CXOs, functional leaders and business teams to understand high-impact opportunities and take ownership of architecting and building AI systems end-to-end. This is not a role for someone who only identifies AI use cases, recommends tools or advises teams. We are looking for a hands-on builder who can go from a business problem to a production-grade AI system.

Requirements

What You’ll Do

● Partner directly with CXOs, business leaders and functional heads across portfolio companies to understand their business, workflows and technology landscape.

● Translate business problems into AI-driven solutions and technical architectures.

● Architect and implement end-to-end enterprise AI systems, including the underlying data, models, agents, integrations and infrastructure.

● Build and deploy AI products and workflows hands-on rather than limiting yourself to solutioning or advisory.

● Design agentic AI architectures and enterprise-grade systems that can operate reliably in real-world business environments.

● Own the entire lifecycle of solutions — from initial problem discovery and architecture to development, deployment and iteration.

● Work across different portfolio companies and business functions, adapting solutions to varied operating environments and technology stacks.

● Stay extremely current with the rapidly evolving AI ecosystem — including new models, model releases, agent architectures, tooling, capabilities, limitations and jailbreaks.

● Work closely with engineering and business teams within portfolio companies to ensure solutions are scalable, reliable and actually adopted.

What We’re Looking For

● Strong background in Data Science, Machine Learning Engineering, AI Engineering or a similar technical discipline, ideally with subsequent experience in a Forward Deployed / customer-facing engineering role.

● Deep understanding of AI architecture and enterprise system design, particularly modern agent-based architectures.

● Proven ability to build AI systems from scratch, rather than simply using existing AI tools within established workflows.

● Strong hands-on engineering skills and the ability to independently take an idea from problem statement, architecture, implementation, deployment.

● Ability to understand business operations and translate ambiguous business requirements into technical solutions.

● Strong communication skills and comfort working directly with CXOs, CFOs, functional heads and senior business stakeholders.

● Curiosity and a strong bias toward experimentation, with the ability to rapidly evaluate and adopt emerging AI technologies.

Good-to-have skills

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