Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer (FDE) jobs in United States
cer-icon
Apply on Employer Site
company-logo

Marqo · 8 hours ago

Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer (FDE)

Marqo is a product search and discovery platform that helps retailers drive significant gains in conversion, revenue, and customer satisfaction. The Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer will deploy Marqo into customer environments, owning technical outcomes from architecture conversations to production rollout, and ensuring deployments are tied to business outcomes.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud InfrastructureDatabaseSearch Engine

Responsibilities

Lead complex implementations from discovery to production success
Translate customer needs into clear technical plans and milestones
Drive projects forward under ambiguity
Ensure deployments are measurable, reliable, and tied to business outcomes (conversion, revenue lift, customer satisfaction)
Advise customers on embeddings, retrieval, ranking, evaluation, and current state-of-the-art retrieval methodology
Help customers design relevance strategies and iterative improvement loops
Support experimentation and rollout design (A/B tests, offline evaluation, metric selection)
Lead technical calls and workshops with confidence and clarity
Explain tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Steer customers away from bad ideas with empathy and strong rationale
Become a trusted technical partner who can drive decisions
Capture recurring pain points and feature gaps from the field
Turn customer insights into actionable feedback for product and engineering teams
Help shape Marqo’s deployment playbooks and solution patterns

Qualification

Applied AICustomer-facing maturityComplex systems debuggingSearch relevance experienceExperiment designTechnical consultingClear communicationOwnership mindset

Required

Strong engineer with real depth: comfortable writing/debugging complex systems; able to reason about production environments, not just prototypes
Applied AI / retrieval competency: grasp of embedding-based retrieval, ranking concepts, evaluation basics, and common data pitfalls
Customer-facing maturity: can lead calls, handle conversations with c-suite executives, explain tradeoffs, and drive decisions with authority
Ownership mindset: you ship outcomes, thrive in ambiguity, and push projects forward proactively
Clear communication: strong written and verbal skills for both technical and business audiences

Preferred

Search / relevance experience
Experiment design + analysis (A/B testing, offline eval, causal thinking)
Instrumentation experience (pixels/SDKs), event pipelines, or analytics tooling
Background in technical consulting, ML platforms, data engineering

Benefits

Equity in the Company — everyone’s an owner.
Tools — all new equipment including a MacBook Pro, monitor, and accessories.
Company Socials — annual budget for team activities and socials.

Company

Marqo

twittertwittertwitter
company-logo
Marqo is a vector search platform that integrates applications, websites, and workflows.

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
Total Funding
$18.53M
Key Investors
Lightspeed Venture Partners
2024-02-13Series A· $12.5M
2023-08-16Seed· $5.2M
2022-05-01Pre Seed· $0.83M

Leadership Team

leader-logo
Jesse N. Clark
Co-Founder & CTO
linkedin
Company data provided by crunchbase