Whatfix

Forward Deployed Engineer

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23 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaMid Level / Senior

Responsibilities

  • Own and sequence the agentification roadmap for a business domain based on ROI and dependencies.
  • Run discovery with business stakeholders, define automation targets and success metrics, and conduct quarterly planning.
  • Set architecture standards for agent topology, escalation logic, data flows, feedback loops, and production readiness.
  • Maintain repository-based specifications, context files, prompts, executable tests, review workflows, and coding-agent guardrails.
  • Remain hands-on with the hardest technical problems and review all agent-generated code against specifications.
  • Own business outcomes including hours automated, error reduction, satisfaction, adoption, and the next-quarter business case.
  • Champion reusable platform extraction and represent the domain in cross-pod platform roadmap reviews.
  • Build FDE capability by coaching at least two FDE-1s toward FDE-2 scope, running design reviews, and making staffing calls.

Requirements

  • 3–7 years of experience with a demonstrated multiplier orientation and evidence of making others measurably better.
  • Meaningful experience with spec-driven development and coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot.
  • Hands-on experience building AI features involving LLM APIs, prompt and context design, retrieval, agents, tool use, and evaluation.
  • Independent business discovery experience, including process mapping, automation scoping, and success-metric definition.
  • Architecture-level ownership of at least one production system, including agent topology, tool-calling chains, human escalation, and feedback loops.
  • Strong Python fundamentals and production experience integrating LLMs such as OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, or Gemini.
  • Experience leading or informally mentoring engineers with demonstrable impact on their scope.
  • Ability to own business-facing outcomes, diagnose design, data, or adoption issues, and act on performance.
  • Preferred: experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, AutoGen, or equivalent agentic frameworks and RAG pipeline design.
  • Preferred: familiarity with Salesforce, HubSpot, or similar CRM/ERP platforms.
  • Preferred: experience presenting technical roadmaps to executive stakeholders and senior-level experience across at least two of discovery, workflow architecture, and build-and-ship.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work culture with all Wednesdays designated as work-from-home days.
  • Case-by-case exceptions to the hybrid arrangement may be considered.
  • Equal opportunity employer with an emphasis on diversity, collaboration, innovation, and work-life balance.
  • AI-assisted resume screening is used across roles, and some shortlisted candidates may have an initial AI-interviewer discussion; hiring decisions remain with Whatfix’s internal hiring teams.

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About Whatfix

1,001-5,000 employees

Whatfix builds a digital adoption platform for enterprises, delivered as SaaS, that provides in-app guidance, hands-on simulation training (Mirror), and adoption/product analytics to improve how users learn and use software. Companies use it across internal and customer-facing applications to onboard users, standardize workflows, and reduce support needs. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Jose, CA, the company is privately held and operates globally.

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