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Job Title

Forward Deployed Engineer

Salary

Top-of-market compensation.

Location

Sydney, Australia, on-site.

Company Description The client is backed by top-tier Silicon Valley investors and is expanding across the world: live in 35+ countries with around 650 people, and a local team in every market it deploys in. It helps large enterprises accelerate AI adoption to unlock their full potential, combining a complete AI operating system with local deployment teams that get AI into production quickly. It reached a $5B valuation in under two years, on more than $800M raised — its valuation went from $2B to $5B in the last six months alone.

The Australia team is scaling now, and this is the engineer the customer sees: the one who makes the product real in production.

What You'll Do

This is not traditional product engineering. You are paired directly with enterprise teams: you learn their workflows, design the AI solution, and build the agents that go into production.

- Partner with customers to find the operational problems worth solving.
- Turn complex, ambiguous problems into technical designs, then implement them.
- Deliver the platform on the customer's side, guiding them on best practices.
- Build AI agents integrated with customer systems and APIs.




- Run workshops with client teams.
- Write production-grade code for integrations and workflows.
- Manage deployments with reliability and performance as your responsibility.
- Test against real data and iterate fast.
- Work with the internal Product and Engineering teams, and contribute back to shared tools and documentation.

Required Qualifications

- Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident.
- 4+ years of hands-on software engineering, with production systems you built and scaled.
- Fluent English, written and spoken.
- Platform integration experience: APIs, cloud infrastructure, MCP, data flows.
- Robust technical problem-solving, and comfortable in front of customers owning an ambiguous problem.
- Excellent communication and a high-ownership mindset.

Nice to Have

- Forward-deployed or solutions engineering background.
- AI agent or automation work.
- Fast-growth startup experience.
- Cloud fluency; TypeScript, Go, or Python.

Why Join

- You are the technical owner of the account, not a ticket in someone's backlog. First call to production is yours.
- Founding-team membership in a global company with a local presence, working with builders from leading tech companies.
- Join a company that went from zero to a $5B valuation in under two years — $2B to $5B in the last six months alone.
- Enterprise AI at the moment it actually lands in production: live in 35+ countries, around 650 people, and agents that resolve more than 80% of the conversations they handle.

📌 Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at a $800M-Funded Category-Leading AI Company (Southern Sydney)
🏢 Harper
📍 Southern Sydney