Forward Deployed Engineer (Australia/Singapore)

The role

You will embed with customer teams to design, ship, and own production-grade SpaceXSI systems. You will lead discovery, build AI applications and agents, and provide technical feedback to product engineering.

What you will do

• Lead discovery with the customer to find bottlenecks and define success metrics
• Design and ship production agents, AI applications, and coding-agent workflows on Grok and models
• Get first versions live and harden them with rollout, monitoring, and iteration
• Own production quality including tracing, evals, debugging, latency, and cost tradeoffs
• Build systems around the model including tools, MCP servers, retrieval, rules, skills, CI gates, and evals
• Integrate systems into customer auth, data, workflow, and delivery systems
• Measure outcomes like revenue, cost, hours saved, error rate, cycle time, and escaped defects
• Work with Staff+, platform, and domain leaders
• Leave customer teams able to run what you built
• Turn learnings into reusable patterns and improvements to SpaceXSI products

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, or data science
• Write and review production code (Python, JavaScript/TypeScript; other languages welcome)
• Owned a customer or operator outcome and turned fuzzy problems into scoped, shipped systems
• Built and owned AI-native workflows or agents in production
• Debugged real production failures (model, tool, data, pipeline, or delivery path)
• Handled production reliability: metrics, alerts, safe rollouts, incident response
• Build end to end: frontend, backend, infra, and prompt iteration
• Thrive in ambiguity
• Can talk to working engineers and to a VP

Nice to have

• 2+ years in a customer-facing role, leading discovery conversations and being accountable for outcomes for external stakeholders
• Hands-on depth in several of: agents and tool-calling, eval harnesses, retrieval and context systems, CI/CD or developer platforms, and AI-native coding workflows in a real repo
• Experience as a forward-deployed, solutions, or platform engineer embedded with customers, or as a founding engineer who owned an AI product end to end

About the company

SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. They are building the full Super Intelligence stack including Colossus supercomputers, Grok models, and a suite of applications.