Forward Deployed Engineer

About Smartcat

Smartcat is building the future of work, where human expertise meets digital teammates to drive 10x to 1000x productivity gains for the world’s leading enterprises. We’re on the frontier of an entirely new category:
Agentic AI. We enable enterprises to build high‑performing hybrid work forces made up of both humans and AI agents. These AI agents aren’t generic copilots. They’re fully trained digital teammates that learn from your best people, your content, and your business strategy—ready to get to work from day one.

Our platform combines generative AI, human‑in‑the‑loop workflows, and a living Enterprise Skill Graph that continuously learns and improves. Whether you’re launching a product globally, onboarding new hires, translating learning content, or aligning legal teams across regions, Smartcat turns knowledge into action and action into scale.

Over 1,000 companies, including 20 % of the Fortune 500, rely on Smartcat to bring their business to the world—instantly, accurately, and in every language. As a Series C company with 130 % year‑over‑year growth, we’re scaling fast and investing in people who want to shape the future of work with us.

Join us in unlocking global potential, one human and agent team at a time.

You’ll join Smartcat’s GTM org as a Forward Deployed Engineer
, owning technical success across the full customer lifecycle—from pre‑sales workflow discovery to implementation, adoption, and expansion. FDEs drive ARR by delivering measurable outcomes and building AI‑powered workflows that accelerate Agent Platform adoption, improve multilingual quality, and maximize long‑term value. You’ll partner closely with Sales, CX, Product, and Engineering to translate business goals into working solutions (integrations, prompts, and AI agents), lead go‑lives, and surface customer insights to influence product direction and roadmap priorities on our biggest customers.

The Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Smartcat is a senior, customer‑facing technical delivery role responsible for translating business goals into deployed AI‑powered localization workflows—and ensuring those workflows drive measurable outcomes. It is a forward‑facing, outcome‑owning role that requires deep technical fluency, strong execution discipline, and the ability to operate across pre‑sales and post‑sales.

• Lead end‑to‑end technical execution across the customer journey— from pre‑sales discovery and demos through deployment and value realization.
• Build AI‑powered workflows that improve multilingual content quality, speed, and efficiency.
• Own integrations and automation that embed Smartcat into enterprise systems.
• Partner cross‑functionally to drive adoption, expansion, and long‑term success.
• Lead pre‑sales technical discovery to understand workflows, systems, and success criteria.
• Translate customer requirements into a clear technical solution plan and implementation path through a strategic plan.
• Partner with GTM account teams to scope opportunities and ensure solutions are sold correctly.
• Build and deploy AI‑powered workflows aligned to customer outcomes.
• Create, test, and iterate prompts, agent skills, and workflow configurations.
• Develop workflows that improve quality, speed, and efficiency in multilingual content creation.
• Ensure that translation quality, output format, and style align with customer expectations.
• Configure platform integrations and end‑to‑end processes using APIs, connectors, and middleware.
• Lead complex technical integrations with enterprise systems such as CMS, DAM, PIM, and commerce platforms (e.g., AEM, Drupal, SFCC).
• Troubleshoot integration and workflow issues with strong technical rigor.
• Build custom solutions when necessary to meet customer operational requirements.
• Collaborate with the engineering team to identify and implement core platform enhancements that resolve customer obstacles.
• Serve as the technical lead for customer deployments from discovery through go‑live.
• Own validation, testing, and go‑live readiness to ensure workflows meet expected quality standards.
• Maintain implementation discipline—timelines, milestones,…