Forward Deployed Engineer

Key Responsibilities

Work embedded full-time within the client’s engineering, product, or service team, participating directly in their planning, standups, and delivery cadence.

Close platform gaps in real time: build the missing components, connectors, or tooling the client’s platform doesn’t yet provide.

Deliver production use cases in parallel with platform build-out, balancing near-term delivery pressure against longer-term platform health.

Integrate with the client’s approved tools, APIs, and governance frameworks (e.g. controlled AI gateways) rather than introducing external dependencies.

Communicate technical trade-offs and blockers directly to client stakeholders, translating between Sia’s team and the client’s engineering leadership.

Collaborate within a cross-functional pod (client engineers, platform engineers, Sia engineers) in an agile/SCRUM setup.

Escalate platform or scope risks early. FDE roles sit at the point where client demand and platform maturity meet.

Qualifications

Education: Bachelor’s/master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Experience & Technical Skills:

Strong Python skills, with production engineering experience, not limited to prototyping.

Comfortable operating embedded within a client or external stakeholder team, with less structure/definition than an internal team typically has.

Ability to quickly understand an unfamiliar codebase or platform and contribute production-quality code within it.

Experience with agent orchestration, RAG/LLM-based applications, and tool/API integration is a strong plus.

SiaGPT or comparable GenAI platform experience is a strong plus.

Comfort working within governed enterprise environments (approved libraries/APIs/services, controlled AI gateways).

Good to have: Spark, Databricks, AWS.

Good to have: prior experience in regulated or enterprise domains (e.g. financial services, healthcare, or public sector).

Additional Information

What We Offer

Opportunity to lead cutting-edge AI projects in a global consulting environment.

Leadership development programs and training sessions at our global centers.

A dynamic and collaborative team environment with diverse projects.

Position based in Mumbai (onsite)

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