Whatfix

Forward Deployed Engineer

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10 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Own discovery, solution building, pilot scoping, automation delivery, evaluation, and go-live for multiple enterprise accounts.
  • Map customer workflows and SOPs into prompts, just-in-time context, configurations, unattended-mode workflows, and integrations.
  • Design end-to-end data and information flows across third-party enterprise applications and anticipate integration bottlenecks.
  • Configure MCP servers and connectors, orchestrate tool calls, and engineer prompts and structured context for automations.
  • Build evaluation suites that measure accuracy, determinism, error handling, and edge cases, using results to gate production readiness.
  • Debug failures, tune prompts and automations, validate solutions in production, track usage and success, and resolve post-go-live gaps.
  • Create reusable use cases, prompts, templates, integrations, and repeatable 0-to-1 automation patterns for the shared playbook.
  • Maintain account project tracking, identify recurring capability gaps, and represent the products in customer demos and workshops.
  • Travel to customer sites in the US/EU as needed and maintain availability for late-evening calls across time zones.

Requirements

  • 4+ 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 with minimal supervision.
  • Hands-on comfort with prompts, automation logic, debugging, MCP servers, tool or function calls, and evaluation of LLM-driven automations.
  • Strong systems thinking and ability to understand how technical components across legacy and modern enterprise applications connect.
  • Experience designing holistic testing architectures for multi-system workflows, accuracy, error handling, edge cases, and full data lifecycles.
  • Strong communication skills with customers and internal stakeholders.
  • Exposure to AI agents, RPA, or workflow automation is a plus.
  • Familiarity with SAP Ariba, Salesforce, D365, or SuccessFactors is a plus.
  • Deep machine learning or model-training experience is not required.

Benefits

  • Travel to customer sites in the US/EU as needed, with late-evening calls across time zones.
  • Equal opportunity employer with support for flexibility and case-by-case exceptions to help manage work and life.

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