Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE (On-site)
Employment Type: Contract
Our client is a fast-growing technology company at the forefront of AI-powered platforms, digital transformation, and advanced software solutions. They are seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to act as the technical bridge between customers and product engineering teams, ensuring successful deployment, integration, and adoption of cutting-edge technology solutions.
This is a highly customer-facing role suited to an experienced engineer who enjoys solving complex problems, building trusted client relationships, and delivering real-world technical outcomes. The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering skills with excellent communication and stakeholder management capabilities.
- Work directly with enterprise customers to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Design, deploy, configure, and support complex software platforms across cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments.
- Build proof of concepts, pilot projects, and custom integrations to address customer needs.
- Act as the technical lead during customer engagements, workshops, demonstrations, and deployments.
- Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and leadership teams to influence product development based on customer feedback.
- Troubleshoot and resolve technical challenges across application, infrastructure, data, and integration layers.
- Develop scripts, APIs, automation tools, and custom functionality to support customer workflows.
- Deliver technical presentations and training sessions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Support ongoing platform optimization, adoption, and customer success initiatives.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, AI, or a related technical discipline.
- 4+ years of experience in one or more of the following:
- Forward Deployed Engineering
- Solutions Engineering
- Solutions Architecture
- Technical Consulting
- Implementation Engineering
- AI Engineering
- Software Engineering
- Strong software development experience with Python and modern development frameworks.
- Experience working with APIs, microservices, system integrations, and cloud technologies.
- Proven ability to engage directly with customers and executive stakeholders.
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting capabilities.
- Comfortable operating in complex and fast-moving environments.
Candidates with experience in any of the following areas will be highly regarded:
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning solutions
- Generative AI applications
- Smart City technologies
- Digital Twin platforms
- GIS and geospatial technologies
- IoT and connected infrastructure
- Enterprise software deployments
- Data platforms and analytics solutions
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