Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
Location: Seattle
Company: Terrakotta AI
About the Role
We’re hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with customers and founders to ship high-impact product features fast. You’ll operate at the intersection of engineering, product, and deployment—owning outcomes from first onboarding through long-term usage.
This role is deeply customer-facing. You won’t just build—you’ll ensure what you build actually gets adopted.
What You’ll Do
- Ship end-to-end product features that directly impact user behavior and revenue
- Work directly with founders and customer executives to understand needs and drive adoption
- Own onboarding: design and refine first-time user experiences until they are seamless
- Obsess over UX—make complex workflows feel simple and intuitive
- Blend engineering and product thinking across frontend, backend, data, and performance
- Deploy into real customer environments and iterate based on live feedback
- Prototype quickly, test in production, and push code daily
- Act as a bridge between customer, product, and engineering
What We’re Looking For
- Strong full-stack engineering ability (Python + modern frontend preferred)
- High product and UX intuition—you notice friction immediately and fix it
- Comfortable working directly with senior stakeholders and customer executives
- Ability to operate in ambiguity and turn vague problems into shipped solutions
- Bias toward speed and iteration over perfection
- Ownership mindset—you care about adoption, not just delivery
Bonus
- Experience in forward deployed / solutions / customer engineering roles
- Background in startups or high-growth environments
- Familiarity with AWS, APIs, and data systems
- Experience with onboarding flows, activation metrics, or product-led growth
Why This Role
- Direct ownership over customer outcomes and revenue
- Work side-by-side with founders and enterprise customers
- High autonomy, fast iteration, no bureaucracy
- Build and deploy systems shaping the future of commercial real estate
Forward Deployed Engineer in Greater Seattle Area at Terrakotta
This position is listed as full time and onsite. It was posted 5 days ago.