Forward Deployed Engineer

Forward Deployed Engineer LocationSan FranciscoEmployment TypeFull timeLocation TypeOn-siteDepartmentEngineeringAbout SpeakeasyAI is moving from chat interfaces to operational systems.Across enterprises, AI agents are connecting to internal systems, using APIs, accessing data, and taking actions on behalf of employees. But while AI adoption is accelerating, governance, visibility, and control have not kept pace.Speakeasy is building the Enterprise AI Control Plane.We help organizations securely connect AI systems to their APIs, tools, and internal infrastructure while providing the identity, governance, permissions, auditability, and observability required to operate AI at scale.Our customers include companies like Mistral, Verizon, Cisco, Vercel, Redis, Glean, LaunchDarkly, PlanetScale, and Docusign. We are backed by Google Ventures, FPV, and Quiet Capital. Today, hundreds of companies rely on Speakeasy infrastructure across API platforms, MCP deployments, and enterprise AI systems.We’re a highly technical team based across San Francisco and London, building at the intersection of AI, infrastructure, security, developer platforms, and enterprise software.The RoleForward Deployed Engineers sit at the center of our customers, product, and engineering teams.You will work directly with engineering leaders, platform teams, security teams, and AI initiatives at some of the most sophisticated companies deploying AI today.This is not a traditional solutions engineering role. You’ll operate across pre-sales, deployment, product feedback, and engineering, acting as the technical bridge between our customers and our platform.You will partner closely with customers from initial evaluation through production deployment. You’ll lead technical discovery, design integrations, solve architecture challenges, build proofs-of-concept, influence product direction, and help define how enterprises securely adopt AI agents and MCP infrastructure.One week you may be helping a customer connect internal APIs to AI systems. The next week you may be designing access control models, debugging identity flows, implementing MCP governance, or working with our product team on entirely new capabilities driven by customer feedback.You will often be the technical face of Speakeasy and one of the first people customers trust with mission-critical AI initiatives.What You’ll DoDrive Technical SalesPartner with Account Executives on strategic customer opportunitiesLead technical discovery and architecture conversations with prospective customersDesign and deliver demos, proofs-of-concept, and pilot implementationsHelp customers evaluate how Speakeasy fits into their AI, security, and infrastructure strategyTranslate customer requirements into deployment plans and product feedbackServe as the technical owner for complex opportunities from evaluation through production rolloutDeploy and IntegrateLead customer implementations of the Speakeasy AI Control PlaneDesign integrations with APIs, MCP servers, SaaS platforms, identity providers, and internal systemsBuild prototypes, proofs-of-concept, and deployment architecturesTroubleshoot complex technical issues across customer environmentsPartner With CustomersAct as a trusted technical advisor to engineering, platform, security, and AI teamsTranslate customer requirements into technical solutionsGuide customers through architecture decisions and implementation tradeoffsDrive successful production rollouts and long-term adoptionBuild strong relationships with engineering leaders, platform teams, security teams, and AI stakeholdersShape the ProductIdentify patterns across customer deploymentsInfluence product roadmap and prioritizationWork directly with engineering to improve platform capabilitiesCreate reusable deployment patterns, documentation, and best practicesBuildWrite production-quality code when neededBuild internal tooling and deployment acceleratorsCreate reference implementations and demosPrototype new product...