Forward Deployed Engineer

The role

You will work with large studios, brands, and Fortune 100 companies to identify and remove technical blockers to production. You will build custom workflows, plugins, or integrations and turn these solutions into reusable products.

What you will do

• Find the real problem by sitting with creative, technical, and executive teams
• Build first-of-its-kind demos and proofs of concept
• Turn one-off solutions into reusable workflows, plugins, or integrations
• Own evaluation plans and guide managed trials
• Carry the technical side of deal cycles with AEs
• Scope 4–12 week deployments with customer-defined success criteria
• Get customers to production fast
• Present to both executives and engineers
• Bring field insights back to Product, Engineering, and Creative teams
• Measure customer metrics like time to production and usage

Required qualifications

• Build things that run in production using Python or TypeScript, APIs, integrations, and data pipelines
• Ability to read, debug, and explain code line by line
• Have shipped a workflow, integration, plugin, or internal tool that a customer actually ran
• Deployed AI or ML systems and integrations inside complex organizations
• Ability to translate between executives and engineers
• Willingness to travel

Nice to have

• data tooling (SQL, BigQuery, Retool)
• experience in media, entertainment, or advertising production

About the company

Runway is building AI to simulate the world through merging art and science. The team builds world models to change how stories are told and how scientific progress is made.