Engineering Full-Time

Forward Deployed Engineer (US)

Context • New York, NY

Company

Context

Annual salary

$160k – $220k/yr

Location

New York, NY

Listed

30d ago

Experience:: 2 to 6 years
Workplace:: Bi-coastal, high preference for New York office, San Francisco office also available (especially for semiconductor-focused work). Up to 50% travel expected if based on the opposite coast from customers.

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About this Role

We are looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer with 2+ years of experience to own end-to-end AI deployments at Fortune 500 customers in financial services and semiconductors. You are a systems thinker who sits at the intersection of engineering, product, and business, someone who has led AI implementations at enterprises, understands agent-driven development, and can translate complex business problems into platform-level solutions. This is a founding-level opportunity to build out Context's deployment function, working directly with logos like KKR and Qualcomm. You'll have extremely high ownership, managing entire customer accounts from executive stakeholders down to end business users.

What will you be doing?

Owning entire enterprise customer accounts end-to-end, strategizing, deploying, and scaling AI agent systems across firms in private equity, investment banking, insurance, tax & audit, and semiconductors
Embedding directly with Fortune 500 customers to deeply understand their workflows, pain points, and business problems, then architecting agentic solutions on the Context platform
Feeding product insights from customer deployments back into Context's core platform, shaping the product roadmap based on real-world signal
Collaborating closely with the founding FDE team and C-suite to determine deployment strategy, staffing needs, and how to scale the function
Building custom AI workflows, data integrations, and agent systems tailored to customer needs, working within platform constraints and pushing the boundaries of what's possible

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The listing gives the location as New York, NY. Bi-coastal, high preference for New York office, San Francisco office also available (especially for semiconductor-focused work). Up to 50% travel expected if based on the opposite coast from customers.