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Forward Deployment Engineer

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Remote
Hiring Remotely in USA
140K-200K Annually
Mid level
Remote
Hiring Remotely in USA
140K-200K Annually
Mid level
The Forward Deployment Engineer will manage technical onboarding for new enterprise customers, develop integration solutions, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to enhance customer success with AI/ML technology.
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Mission

Speechify is the easiest way to listen to the world’s information. Articles on the web, documents in the cloud, books on your phone. We absorb it all and let you listen to it at your desk, on the go, at your own speed, and with tools that make learning easier, deeper, and faster. What streaming services have done for audio entertainment, we’re doing for audio information. And whatever we’re doing seems to be working. We’re #1 in our category, and experiencing exponential growth.
 
Overview

As a Forward Deployment Engineer, you'll be the technical face of our company for customers from day one. You'll sit at the intersection of engineering and customer success — deeply understanding our AI/ML platform and ensuring customers integrate it successfully into their existing workflows. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role where your work directly shapes customer outcomes and informs our product roadmap.
 
What You’ll Do
  • Own the end-to-end technical onboarding experience for new enterprise customers, from kickoff through successful integration
  • Build and maintain integration scripts, tooling, and documentation to accelerate customer time-to-value
  • Serve as the primary technical point of contact during the onboarding phase, translating customer requirements into actionable engineering solutions
  • Diagnose integration issues across customer environments (APIs, data pipelines, cloud infrastructure) and drive them to resolution
  • Collaborate closely with product and engineering to surface customer feedback and influence the roadmap
  • Develop reusable onboarding playbooks and internal tooling to scale the deployment process
  • Travel to customer sites occasionally for critical onboarding milestones or technical workshops
 
An ideal candidate should have
  • 3–6 years of experience in a software engineering, solutions engineering, or technical implementation role
  • Strong proficiency in Python and/or another backend language; comfort reading and writing production-quality code
  • Experience with REST APIs, webhooks, and common integration patterns
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and data infrastructure tools
  • Excellent communication skills — able to explain complex technical concepts to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
  • Self-starter mentality with strong project management instincts; able to juggle multiple customer engagements simultaneously
  • Genuine curiosity about AI/ML and enthusiasm for helping customers unlock value from cutting-edge technology
Nice-to-Have:
  • Prior experience at an AI/ML or developer tools company
  • Familiarity with LLMs, vector databases, or ML model deployment
  • Experience with enterprise software environments (SSO, VPCs, data residency requirements)
  • Background in customer-facing engineering roles (forward deployment, solutions engineering, professional services)

Why This Role

  • Direct influence on product direction — your customer insights will shape what we build
  • High ownership from day one with a clear path to senior or team lead roles
  • Competitive salary, equity, and benefits
  • Collaborative, low-ego team that values craft and customer obsession
 
Engineering at Speechify is exciting for a few reasons
  • We provide an opportunity to not only increase your knowledge, but ours as well.
    • We strongly believe is sustainable growth. As a startup, we put our customers and employees first.
  • Our company vision allows for a lot of creative exploration.
    • What does a future where people consume all information through audio look like? How do we create this future?
  • We have life changing product market fit.
    • Our users (people with disabilities, students, working professionals) report life changing experiences after discovering our product.
  • We move very quickly
    • We run many experiments and ship product updates multiple times every week.
  • We are focused on customers
    • We start from concrete user problems and build systems that solve them
  • We value deep thinking
    • We get to the right answers through careful thought and experimentation and love digging deeper into the details.

What we offer

  • A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
  • An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.
  • A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.
  • An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.
  • Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.
  • Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.
  • Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.
  • Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.

The United States Based Salary range for this role is: 140,000-200,000 USD/Year + Bonus + Stock depending on experience

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Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 
Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Top Skills

AWS
Azure
GCP
Python
Rest Apis

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