FDE Engineer

Job Summary
Location: Washington
Experience: 5+ years in production AI/data systems
Job Type: Permanent
Thinking Minds' client is looking for an experienced Forward Deployed Engineer to solve complex, high-impact problems directly with customers. This role is crucial for turning emerging technologies in intelligent networking, generative AI, and cloud platforms into production solutions. The engineer will work in real customer environments to shape capabilities that benefit customers at scale.

Ideal Candidate Should Have
Bold experience in intelligent networking
Bold knowledge of generative AI
Experience with agentic systems
Familiarity with automation
Proficiency in cloud platforms
Role Overview
Forward Deployed Engineers are responsible for designing, building, validating, and deploying solutions to complex business and technical problems using the client's products and platforms. They operate in real customer environments, owning technical outcomes from discovery and solution design through implementation and production readiness.

The role demands a deep technical understanding and hands-on approach to ensure solutions meet scalability, security, reliability, observability, and operational safety requirements.

Key Responsibilities
Collaborate with customers to design and deploy solutions using Extreme's products
Ensure production solutions are scalable and secure
Validate and stabilize production solutions
Own technical outcomes from discovery to production readiness
Work in real customer environments
Build solutions that meet demanding requirements
Top Skills and Modules
Intelligent networking
Generative AI
Cloud platforms
Automation
Agentic systems
Scalability and security expertise
Reliability and observability skills