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About the Role
As Head of Forward Deployed Engineering, you will lead a growing team, build the operating model for scale, and remain hands-on with strategic customer engagements. You will partner with the executive team on enterprise strategy, product direction, and high-impact technical initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the FDE organization's vision, operating model, execution playbooks, resourcing strategy, and quarterly priorities.
- Lead, mentor, and scale an existing team of Forward Deployed Engineers.
- Own the technical strategy for Tavily's most strategic enterprise accounts.
- Partner closely with Sales and Customer Success to shape technical strategy for strategic accounts.
- Serve as the senior technical voice with executive stakeholders.
- Lead strategic customer engagements and build reference implementations, retrieval pipelines, agentic systems, production integrations, and technical prototypes on the Tavily API.
- Support select high-impact technical initiatives where senior field expertise is needed.
- Build scalable internal assets, including playbooks, demo environments, documentation, reference architectures, tooling, and reusable templates.
- Synthesize customer patterns and technical feedback into clear product and engineering roadmap recommendations.
- Represent Tavily externally in executive customer conversations, strategic engagements, developer communities, conferences, and technical content.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience in customer-facing technical roles.
- 4+ years building or leading customer-facing engineering teams.
- Strong hands-on engineering ability in Python, APIs, distributed systems, and modern software architecture.
- Deep experience designing and building production AI systems, including LLM applications, agentic workflows, retrieval architectures, evaluation systems, and the infrastructure required to operate them reliably at scale.
- Strong familiarity with the modern AI application stack.
- Proven track record leading the technical side of enterprise engagements from initial architecture discussions through successful production deployment and expansion.
- Strong business and commercial judgment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills across executive, technical, and developer audiences.
- A builder's mindset with the ability to create structure, operating rhythms, and scalable playbooks in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
- Based in New York City or willing to relocate, or able to maintain a strong presence with the team and customers.
- Previous experience leading a Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Solutions Engineering, or Professional Services organization.
- Experience scaling a customer-facing engineering function through rapid company growth.
- Open-source contributions to AI infrastructure, agent frameworks, retrieval systems, or evaluation tooling.
- Experience speaking at developer conferences or publishing technical content on AI systems, agents, or LLM applications.
- Domain expertise in industries such as financial services, legal, enterprise SaaS, consulting, or AI infrastructure.
- Experience collaborating with model providers, AI platforms, or strategic technology partners.
Skills
- Python
- APIs
- Distributed systems
- Modern software architecture
- LLM applications
- Agentic workflows
- Retrieval architectures
- Evaluation systems
- AI infrastructure
- Agent frameworks
- Retrieval systems
- Evaluation tooling
- Production deployment patterns
Location
- Remote (within the United States)
- New York City
Work Type
- Remote
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- 4+ years building or leading customer-facing engineering teams
Salary/Compensations
- $208,000—$261,000 USD
Benefits
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families
- Up to 4% company match with immediate vesting in 401(k) Plan
- 20 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers
- 12 weeks paid parental leave for secondary caregivers
- Up to $85/month reimbursement for mobile and internet
- Company-paid short-term, long-term, and life insurance coverage
- Competitive compensation
- Career growth and learning opportunities
- Flexibility and ownership
- Collaborative and innovative culture
- Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects
- International environment and talented teams
About the Company
- Nebius is leading a new era in cloud infrastructure for the global AI economy, building a full-stack AI cloud platform.
- Tavily is building the search engine for AI agents, with an API designed to power RAG and real-time reasoning in AI systems.
Equal Opportunity
- Nebius is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.
- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the country in which they apply and will be required to provide proof of employment eligibility as a condition of hire.
- If you need accommodations during the application process, please let us know.