Senior Forward Deployed Data Engineer

Senior Forward Deployed Data EngineerJob type: Full Time · Department: Engineering · Work type: Remote · USD 160,000-240,000 / yearUnited States Job detailsApplication formAbout AkkioAkkio is the AI infrastructure that automates campaign workflows for the world's largest media agencies and data providers. Our platform runs on-premises within our partners' cloud environments, sits directly on top of their data, and enables teams to productionize agentic AI workflows at enterprise scale with full security and governance control.Our approach already powers some of the biggest names in media. Havas is building agentic AI into Converged.AI, its global operating system, in partnership with Akkio. Horizon Media strengthened its blu. platform with Akkio. Mediaplus built Plus.AI, its global AI media planning system, on our infrastructure. LG Ad Solutions uses Akkio to unlock real-time intelligence from ACR data.We're a small, fast-growing team, and every person here shapes what media's biggest players do next.How we buildWe build with AI the way we expect our partners to run on it: aggressively, thoughtfully, and in production. Agentic coding is foundational to how our engineering team works. Our engineers orchestrate coding agents to move from idea to shipped product at a pace that would be impossible by hand, and they hold that output to a high bar for quality, testing, and reliability.If you've rebuilt your workflow around agents, maintaining context files for your repos, running agents on real production work, publishing MCP servers, or rethinking how code review works when an agent writes the first draft, you'll feel at home. If you're still evaluating whether AI coding tools are ready, this probably isn't the right role.The opportunityAs a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at Akkio, you'll embed directly with the world's largest media agencies and build whatever it takes to make agentic AI work in their environment — integrations, backend services, data workflows, agent configurations, and internal tools alike. You'll own technical delivery end-to-end, from initial scoping through production deployment, and serve as the technical bridge between the customer's teams and ours.This is a generalist engineering role by design. Forward deployed problems don't respect specialty boundaries: one week the blocker is a data integration, the next it's an agent workflow, an API, or a quick internal tool that unblocks a whole team. We're looking for engineers who see the whole problem, pick up whatever layer of the stack it lives in, and drive to a working solution in production.This role is built for owners. Requirements in the field are rarely fully defined and often shift as we learn from customers. We're looking for someone who treats that as the fun part: someone who takes a partially-shaped problem, drives it to a well-shaped solution, and ships a great product without waiting for a full spec. The role requires regular travel to customer sites to work face-to-face with agencies who value hands-on partnership, and your insights from the field will directly shape Akkio's product direction.What you'll doEmbed directly with media agency customers to understand their infrastructure, workflows, and business objectivesOwn end-to-end technical delivery of customer implementations, from initial scoping through production deployment and ongoing optimizationBuild across the stack as the problem demands: integrations and data workflows connecting customer systems to Akkio, backend services, agent and workflow configurations, and the occasional internal tool that unblocks a customer teamMultiply your output with agentic coding and help raise the bar for how forward deployed work gets built and deliveredNavigate diverse technical environments and adapt solutions to each customer's existing infrastructureEstablish trusted advisor relationships with customer technical and business stakeholdersImplement security and compliance measures that protect...