Forward Deployed Data Engineer (Data & AI)

About the role As a Forward Deployed Data Engineer (FDE), you will work directly with customers to design, build, deploy, and operate production-grade data pipelines, analytics products, and AI-ready data solutions. You will take ownership from business question to production outcome—staying accountable until the data is reliable, the numbers can be trusted, the solution is secure and supportable, and the customer's team understands how to operate and extend it.

Build and operate production-grade data pipelines (batch and streaming) and analytics products, and prepare the data behind AI solutions such as RAG, enterprise search, and AI agents. Ingest data from enterprise sources, including ERP, CRM, SaaS platforms, APIs, databases, files, and legacy systems, into cloud data platforms such as BigQuery. Solve business questions, not just technical requirements.

Start from the decision a stakeholder needs to make, define the metric behind it, and recommend the right data architecture. Design data models for analytics and AI, including dimensional models, medallion layers (bronze, silver, gold), and semantic or metric layers that give one consistent definition of each KPI. Build analytics products such as dashboards and self-service reports that stakeholders trust and use to make decisions.

Design data quality checks and evaluation frameworks that measure reconciliation to source, freshness, accuracy, groundedness of AI answers, cost, and business outcomes bef