Fluency

Engineering

ForwardDeployedEngineer

$180–250k San Francisco, California, United States; New York City, New York, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Forward Deployed Engineer at Fluency. Skills: Forward Deployed Engineering, building automations, building agents, building workflows, customer integration. Deploy inside customer environments and own transformation delivery end to end. Build automations, agents, and workflows based on processes discovered by Fluency's work ontology platform”

What You'll Achieve.

deliver the change; deliver automations, agents, and workflows; show before-and-after impact

Industry & Context.

Engineering
Problems you'll solve

Work through incomplete requirements; shipping in ambiguity; dislike constraints (we have them: cost, latency, reliability tradeoffs are real)

Eligibility Requirements

in-person role based in San Francisco, five days a week, up to 25% travel globally, E-3 sponsorship for Australians to relocate with stipend

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

full-stack or backend engineering skills, production-quality code in Python and/or TypeScript/Node, Hands-on experience building and shipping AI agents, workflow automations, or process integrations in real environments, Comfortable scoping and delivering work when requirements are incomplete and the environment is unfamiliar, Ability to work across a wide variety of enterprise tools and systems without needing a pre-paved path, English fluency is required

Nice to Have

Experience with RPA, process mining, or enterprise automation tooling, Familiarity with LLM orchestration frameworks and agent design patterns, Background in consulting, solutions engineering, or a forward-deployed professional services capacity, Experience with process improvement, operations, or business transformation, Experience deploying on AWS Lambda, ECS, or similar infrastructure, Ability to read and work within unfamiliar codebases quickly

What You'll Do.

Deploy inside customer environments and own transformation delivery end to end

and workflows based on processes discovered by Fluency's work ontology platform

Feed Fluency's ontology

and work definitions into agents

Work with customer engineering teams to integrate automations into existing systems

or build and own them independently

Work through incomplete requirements across customer teams

governance constraints

implementation details

and production rollout

Measure outcomes using Fluency's ROI and productivity tooling

Report back to product on how the platform performs in real customer environments

Contribute to the core product and use what you learn in customer environments to inform product decisions

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Work with customer engineering teams to integrate automations into existing systems; Work through incomplete requirements across customer teams

Communication Scope

Clear communication; translate between technical constraints, delivery tradeoffs, and implementation risks for customer teams

Process & Methodology

own transformation delivery end to end, scoping and delivering work when requirements are incomplete

Full Job Description

We're looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to join Fluency full-time. You will work directly inside customer organizations, taking what our platform discovers and building the automations, agents, and workflows that deliver the change.   Fluency's work ontology platform is a system that maps how work actually happens across an organization. It captures the tools people use, the steps they take, and the data that moves between them, then turns all of that into a structured model of the work. It uses that model to surface high-value processes with clear automation potential.   You'll use Fluency's platform to understand the work, then build automations and agents in the customer environment. The platform identifies the opportunity. You validate the workflow, build the automation, and get it working inside the customer environment.   This is an in-person role based in San Francisco, five days a week. It involves up to 25% travel globally. English fluency is required.   KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Deploy inside customer environments and own transformation delivery end to end. - Build automations, agents, and workflows based on processes discovered by Fluency's work ontology platform. This ranges from simple programmatic automations, to multi-step AI agents, to workflows that support teams and individual users. - Feed Fluency's ontology, process, and work definitions into agents so they handle real edge cases and boundary conditions in production. - Work with customer engineering teams to integrate automations into existing systems, or build and own them independently. - Work through incomplete requirements across customer teams, governance constraints, implementation details, and production rollout. - Measure outcomes using Fluency's ROI and productivity tooling to show before-and-after impact. - Report back to product on how the platform performs in real customer environments. You'll be the closest person to that signal. - Contribute to the core product and use what you

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