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We’re looking for an exceptional Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to join our product engineering team. Our FDEs own the deployment of the Encord platform in our most strategic and advanced use-cases – working with customers daily to drive adoption and value delivery. As an early member of the Forward Deployed team, you will have an outsized impact shaping a critical function for Encord and our customers, and stepping into a role which can accelerate your career in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. You will become a product expert, and work with internal teams, both technical & commercial, to build a well-oiled engine that consistently enables customers to get up and running successfully, at scale. As an end-to-end owner of the deployment process, you will have a chance to work and grow on a variety of problems – technical engineering, operational excellent and strategic product work. Expect to build data integrations, guide customers with best practices, demo the product, and contribute to the product roadmap.

Job Responsibility:

  • Own the deployment of the Encord platform in our most strategic and advanced use-cases
  • Work with customers daily to drive adoption and value delivery
  • Become a product expert
  • Work with internal teams, both technical & commercial, to build a well-oiled engine that consistently enables customers to get up and running successfully, at scale
  • Build data integrations
  • Guide customers with best practices
  • Demo the product
  • Contribute to the product roadmap

Requirements:

  • 3-8 years of experience in a client-facing role in a high-intensity, fast-paced environment
  • Comfortable handling in-the-weeds product configuration queries and communicating to executives about a project plan
  • Great communicator and motivated by building customer relationships and solving customer problems
  • Enjoy running demos, hosting workshops and shipping solutions
  • Derive energy from owning & successfully completing projects, and are great at balancing detail-focus with bigger-picture thinking
  • Highly organized and great at managing time across many competing priorities
  • Ambitious and care lots about career
  • Consistently performed in the top percentile of whatever environment you’ve been in
What we offer:
  • Competitive salary and equity in a hyper growth startup
  • Real opportunities to grow
  • Strong in person culture
  • Annual learning and development budget
  • 25 day annual leave + public holidays
  • Lots of opportunities for travel (to Europe and the US)
  • Bi-annual off-sites and monthly socials
  • Health, dental and vision insurance

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 05, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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