# Forward Deployment Engineer **Company**: Netguru **Location**: Poland **Work arrangement**: remote **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: from 20000PLN net on B2B contract or from 16700PLN gross on Contract of Employment **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://apply.workable.com/j/1FE57121AF?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_5004218c-208 ## Description Our mission at Netguru is to help entrepreneurs and innovators shape the world through beautiful software. As a Forward Deployment Engineer, you will sit at the intersection of client delivery, pre-sales, and internal AI tooling. You embed with a client (or an internal Netguru team), translate ambiguous problems into a defensible technical scope, and ship working AI systems to production - fast. **Responsibilities** - Client engagements: - Embed temporarily into the team that owns the problem , client engineering org or internal Netguru team. - Run discovery with stakeholders from CTO down to end-user. - Run workshops, uncover requirements, clarify business needs, and translate ambiguous pain into a written technical scope you can defend. - Analyze customer processes, identify bottlenecks, and propose digital or AI-driven improvements. - Lead pre-sales on AI opportunities , scope, price, propose, close. - Act as a trusted advisor, challenging assumptions and recommending better technical, product, or process approaches when appropriate. - Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating complex AI and engineering concepts into clear business language. - Work comfortably within client environments, adapting to their tools, security requirements, workflows, governance models, and decision-making structures. - Take ownership of outcomes, ensuring solutions deliver measurable business value, adoption, and long-term impact. - Build: - Prototype in days, not weeks , working software, not slides. - Write production-grade Python or TypeScript (or whatever the client runs). - Ship AI-enabled workflows: copilots, agents, RAG systems, automation, internal tooling. - Integrate with the client's existing stack. - Design solutions that are not only technically sound but also usable, reliable, and aligned with real user workflows. - Stand up evals, observability, and guardrails before going live. - Own the path to production: security review, procurement, change management. - Identify opportunities where AI can improve processes, reduce manual effort, accelerate decision-making, or create new product capabilities. - Build internally (≈50% of the role): - Extend Netguru's internal AI platform with new agents, MCPs, and skills based on field learnings. - Build enablement tooling for internal AI delivery teams , templates, runbooks, reusable skills. - Codify reusable client patterns back into NetguruOS. **Requirements** - Experience: - 5+ years total, including 3+ years hands-on building and shipping AI-assisted systems. - 2+ years in a client-facing consulting or pre-sales engineering role. - Proven full-cycle ownership: discovery → scoping → build → production → handoff. - Comfortable with both technical and business stakeholders in the same engagement. - Strong understanding of business processes and the ability to translate operational challenges into practical software and AI solutions. - Experience gathering requirements, facilitating discovery workshops, and transforming ambiguous business problems into actionable implementation plans. - Understanding of AI adoption challenges, including data readiness, user trust, governance, compliance, change management, and operational integration. - Communicative (B2+) Polish and English. - Technical: - Production-grade Python and/or TypeScript , shipped systems, not scripts. - LLM stack fluency (Claude, GPT, open-weight) , knows when to use which and why. - AI system design: agents, RAG pipelines, copilots, MCP servers, sub-agents. - Eval-driven development , defines success metrics before shipping, measures after. - Integration experience: REST APIs, iPaaS, common SaaS (CRM, PM, BI). - Cloud deployment, security reviews, change management. - Consulting & communication: - Strong customer-facing mindset with the ability to understand stakeholder needs and translate them into practical software solutions. - Translates ambiguous client pain into written technical scope , and defends it. - Credible with a CEO and an engineer on the same day. - Proposal writing and deal scoping for AI engagements. - Senior stakeholder management without hand-holding. - Ability to communicate AI concepts, architecture decisions, risks, trade-offs, and implementation options to non-technical audiences. - Solution-oriented consulting approach focused on delivering business outcomes rather than simply implementing requested features. **Nice to have** - Domain experience in Finance, Retail, or Supply Chain. - Public presence - conference talks, open-source, published writing on AI SDLC orchestration and multi-agent pipelines. **What success looks like (first 6–12 months)** - First AI engagement scoped, built, and delivered to production. - At least one reusable asset (agent skill, MCP, eval suite) shipped into NetguruOS. - Measurable time savings from internal tooling contributions. **Benefits** - Access to the WorkSmile platform offering benefits adapted to your preferences: - Multisport card. - Private health insurance package. - Life insurance. - Hundreds of other options to choose from 15 categories (shopping, leisure, travel, food, etc.). - Discounts on Apple products. - PLN 175 monthly lump sum (ryczałt) for remote employees (Contract of Employment). - Various internal initiatives: webinars, knowledge-sharing sessions, internal conferences. ## Skills ### Required - Python - TypeScript - LLM stack - AI system design - Eval-driven development - Integration experience - Cloud deployment - security reviews - change management ### Nice to have - Domain experience in Finance - Retail - Supply Chain - Public presence --- Source: [Apply at apply.workable.com](https://apply.workable.com/j/1FE57121AF?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)