Forward Deployed Software Engineer at Encord · LumiJobs

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We're looking for an exceptional Forward Deployed Software Engineer (FDSE) to join our engineering team. This is an engineering-first role: FDSEs are the technical owners who take the Encord platform into our most strategic and advanced customer environments, working directly with users and their engineering teams to understand complex problems, make system design decisions, and build production software that solves them.
As an early member of the Forward Deployed team, you'll have an outsized impact on shaping a critical engineering function at Encord. You'll work hands-on across the stack, from APIs and data workflows to backend services and product surfaces, while owning technical problems end to end. You'll make architecture decisions under real production constraints, debug complex integrations and workflows, and build solutions that can scale beyond a single customer or use case. You'll operate autonomously, defining the right technical approach with limited guidance, building trusted relationships with users, and feeding what you learn directly back into the product and engineering roadmap.
Design and build production software for complex data, ML, and application environments
Own system design decisions for deployments, balancing correctness, scalability, performance, and speed
Work directly with customers and their engineering teams to understand ambiguous problems and define the right technical solution
Build across the stack, from APIs and data workflows to backend systems and product-facing functionality
Own deployments from technical scoping through implementation, rollout, and iteration
Turn recurring customer problems into reusable tooling and product capabilities
Debug complex production issues across reliability, performance, and data flow
Communicate technical decisions and trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Operate with high autonomy and own problems end to end
Feed deployment insights back into Product and Engineering, and help shape the FDSE function as the team grows

Forward Deployed Software Engineer

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Qualification

Required

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Company

Encord

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