# Senior Technical Marketing Engineer – Network Automation

**Company**: Forward
**Location**: Remote USA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $200,000 - $230,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Forward was founded in 2013 by four Stanford Ph.D.s, building the industry's first network digital twin: a mathematically accurate model of the production network.

We are seeking a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer (Network Automation) to help drive adoption and understanding of Forward's automation capabilities across customers, partners, and the broader network engineering community.

## Responsibilities

- Partner with Product Management to define, validate, and shape automation-related capabilities and use cases.

- Design and evangelize customer workflows that realize the value of automation features, including NQE (Network Query Engine), APIs, and CI/CD-driven verification.

- Enhance existing product integrations and build new ones to expand automation and interoperability across the broader network and IT ecosystem.

- Build and maintain lab environments to support demos, technical validation, and automation use-case exploration.

- Develop high-quality technical collateral for internal audiences, including training materials, demo guides, and sales enablement content.

- Collaborate with Marketing to create external-facing assets such as whitepapers, solution briefs, blogs, presentations, and videos.

- Enable Sales and Solutions teams with automation-focused demos, messaging, and technical training.

- Represent Forward at customer meetings, webinars, and industry events, including networking and automation conferences and trade shows.

- Contribute thought leadership on network automation trends and Forward's role in modern NetDevOps and intent-based networking architectures.

- Gather field and market feedback to influence product roadmap and automation positioning.

## Required Qualifications

- 8+ years of experience as a Technical Marketing Engineer, Sales Engineer, Network Engineer, or similar customer-facing technical role.

- Strong understanding of enterprise networking concepts, including routing, switching, and network change management.

- Experience with NetDevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, or infrastructure-as-code workflows applied to networking.

- Familiarity with source control (Git), API integration, and building automation against network data models.

- Hands-on experience with network automation tooling and frameworks (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Python, REST APIs, or similar).

- Experience working with complex enterprise networks across on-prem, virtualized, and cloud environments.

- Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform and familiarity with virtualization and containerized environments.

- Proven ability to build and operate lab environments for demos and technical validation.

- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Networking, or a related field.

- Ability to work effectively across Product, Sales, and Marketing teams.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Working knowledge of data query and transformation languages (e.g., GraphQL, JSONPath, or a query engine such as Forward's NQE).

- Familiarity with AI/ML concepts and hands-on experience exploring AI-driven use cases in network operations or data analysis.

- Working knowledge of Linux administration.

- Familiarity with Forward or similar network visibility, verification, or analytics platforms.

- Experience presenting at conferences, webinars, or customer-facing technical events.

The base pay range for this role is between $200,000 and $230,000.

## Skills

### Required
- network automation
- NetDevOps
- CI/CD pipelines
- infrastructure-as-code
- network data models
- API integration
- source control
- cloud platforms
- virtualization
- containerized environments
- lab environments
- technical writing
- presentation skills

### Nice to have
- data query and transformation languages
- AI/ML concepts
- Linux administration
- network visibility
- verification
- analytics platforms

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