Talkdesk

Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, HLS

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20 days ago

Base Salary

$230k - $275k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical architecture and systems strategy for Talkdesk’s largest and most complex global enterprise deployments.
  • Design scalable, secure multi-agent systems and reusable architectural blueprints for enterprise integrations.
  • Write production-grade Python, TypeScript, and Node.js code for custom AI agents, orchestration layers, and integrations.
  • Build foundational SDKs, reusable agent templates, and deployment automation tools for the FDE organization.
  • Serve as the primary technical authority for strategic customer accounts and guide executive and principal-architect stakeholders.
  • Partner with Product and AI Engineering teams to translate customer requirements into platform capabilities and roadmap priorities.
  • Mentor FDEs and establish engineering standards for prompt engineering, agent evaluation, workflow orchestration, and enterprise software delivery.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, systems architecture, or technical solutions engineering.
  • 3+ years focused on architecting and deploying complex AI, ML, or agentic solutions using cloud services in production.
  • Experience leading architecture and integration for large enterprise IT environments, including global ERPs, legacy contact center infrastructure, or enterprise CRMs.
  • Proven experience designing and orchestrating multi-agent systems, RAG pipelines, planning algorithms, memory structures, and tool-use or function-calling frameworks.
  • Exceptional proficiency in TypeScript, Python, JavaScript, or similar modern programming languages.
  • Expert knowledge of enterprise integration patterns, including REST or GraphQL APIs, webhooks, gRPC, event-driven architectures, Kafka, and RabbitMQ.
  • Ability to build trust, navigate complex organizations, and drive technical consensus with C-suite executives and VP-level engineering leaders.
  • Preferred experience with RAG architecture, Pinecone, Qdrant, Milvus, pgvector, and LLM evaluation frameworks.
  • Preferred domain experience with Epic, Cerner, Aetna or payer systems, Salesforce, SAP, inventory platforms, CCaaS, UCaaS, or CX.
  • Open-source AI framework, developer-tool, or public technical thought-leadership contributions are preferred.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance plus an Employee Assistance Program.
  • 401(k) plan.
  • Uncapped paid time off for exempt employees or accrual-based time off for non-exempt employees, subject to manager approval and business needs.
  • 14 paid holidays per year.
  • Primarily office-environment work with computer-based responsibilities and limited lifting.
  • Application window expected to remain open for at least 90 days from the posting date; posted July 24, 2026.

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Forward Deployed
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1,001-5,000 employees
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