Forward Deployed Engineer - India

Bengaluru. Posted 3 days ago

The role

You will embed with customer teams to own outcomes and ship production-grade SpaceXSI systems. You will design and ship production agents, AI applications, and coding-agent workflows on Grok and its models.

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 and integrate them into customer auth, data, workflow, and delivery systems
Measure outcomes like revenue, cost, hours saved, error rate, cycle time, and escaped defects
Work directly with Staff+, platform, and domain leaders
Leave customer teams able to run what you built and turn learnings into reusable patterns

Required qualifications

5+ years of experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, or data science
Experience owning a customer or operator outcome and turning fuzzy problems into shipped systems
Built and owned AI-native workflows or agents in production using Python, JavaScript/TypeScript
Experience debugging real production failures involving model, tool, data, pipeline, or delivery path

Nice to have

2+ years in a customer-facing role leading discovery and being accountable for outcomes
Hands-on depth in agents and tool-calling, eval harnesses, retrieval and context systems, CI/CD or developer platforms, and AI-native coding workflows
Experience as a forward-deployed, solutions, or platform engineer embedded with customers
Experience 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.