Whatfix

Forward Deployed Engineer - Lead

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10 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own discovery, solution building, pilot scoping, evaluation, and go-live delivery for multiple enterprise accounts.
  • Map customer workflows and SOPs into Seek prompts, context, configurations, and unattended-mode automations.
  • Build test suites, fix solution gaps, and establish accuracy and determinism before customer sign-off.
  • Lead, assign, unblock, review, and coach a small team of Forward Deployed Engineers.
  • Run project and program management across pilots, including trackers, timelines, stakeholder updates, and risk escalation.
  • Set the technical quality bar for prompts, context design, MCP and tool-call architecture, and evaluation coverage.
  • Provide customer-facing demos, workshops, executive conversations, and feedback to Product and Engineering.
  • Plan schedules to support customer calls across global time zones, including late evenings when needed.

Requirements

  • At least 6 years of experience in a customer-facing technical role such as forward-deployed engineering, solutions engineering, or enterprise software/SaaS implementation consulting.
  • Ability to scope ambiguous customer problems into working solutions quickly and independently.
  • Hands-on fluency with prompts, automation logic, debugging, prompt and context writing, MCP configuration, tool calls, and evaluation design.
  • Experience leading or mentoring a small technical team and managing delivery plans across multiple accounts.
  • Strong communication skills with customers and senior stakeholders.
  • Systems-thinking ability to design how technical components connect across legacy and modern applications.
  • Exposure to AI agents, RPA, or workflow automation is preferred.
  • Familiarity with SAP Ariba, Salesforce, D365, or SuccessFactors is preferred.
  • Comfort working in an ambiguous role and helping shape a new delivery model.

Benefits

  • Whatfix is an equal opportunity employer that values diverse employees.
  • The role is expected to work from the office five days per week, with the option to work from home up to two days per month.
  • The schedule may include late-evening customer calls to support customers worldwide.

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1,001-5,000 employees
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