Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at Uniphore, you will lead the technical architecture, prototyping, and delivery of strategic AI solutions for enterprise clients on our Agentic AI platform. This role involves deep technical ownership, guiding customers and internal teams through complex AI projects, and solving challenges in enterprise data pipelines, multi-agent orchestration, and RAG/SLM finetuning. You will customize platform components, integrate new APIs, build reusable tooling, and ensure solution success through collaboration and adherence to best practices. The position requires expertise in full-stack development, DevOps, data pipelines, LLMs, and Agentic AI tooling, contributing to trustworthy and auditable AI agents.

Must Have

• Lead the technical solution design and implementation of large-scale Agentic and Knowledge AI solutions for key enterprise clients.
• Act as the primary technical point of contact during solution development and post-deployment optimization.
• Own and execute projects end-to-end: from integration design to agent workflows and full-stack delivery.
• Customize platform components as needed—integrating new APIs, building reusable tooling, or extending platform logic.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams internally and with customers to ensure solution success.
• Provide structured feedback to Platform Engineering and Product on feature gaps and customer pain points.
• Contribute to technical best practices and accelerate solution delivery through reusable assets, frameworks, and documentation.
• Champion observability, monitoring, versioning and telemetry to ensure trustworthy and auditable AI agents.
• Stay current on RAG, LLM/SLM advancements, Agentic AI tooling, vector/graph databases, retrieval optimizations, multi-modal systems, evaluation frameworks, GPU/Infra trends, fine tuning techniques, security/guardrails and broader landscape of Enterprise & Agentic AI.
• Undergraduate, master’s degree or Phd in Computer Science or Data Science
• 6–10+ years of experience in engineering, with 2+ years in customer-facing or field roles.
• Proven success building and deploying AI/ML or data-intensive applications in production.
• Deep full-stack development skills (Python, Node.js/Go, React/Vue) and DevOps experience (Docker, K8s, CI/CD).
• Expertise in building data pipelines and integrating with enterprise systems (REST, Python, SQL, GraphQL, Webhooks etc).
• Solid understanding of LLMs, Prompt engineering/tuning, Vector DBs (AstraDB, Pinecone, Weaviate etc), RAG pipelines (LlamaIndex, Haystack) and Agent/Workflow Orchestration (LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI)
• Ability to translate ambiguous customer needs into actionable engineering plans.
• Strong leadership, mentoring, and project ownership abilities.
• Excellent communication and collaboration across technical and business stakeholders.

Good to Have

• Knowledge of SLM Finetuning and Distillation
• Experience and knowledge of Agentic development platforms and experience building and delivery enterprise agentic solutions

Perks & Benefits

• Annual incentive opportunity based on target achievement
• Pre-IPO stock options
• Medical benefits
• Dental benefits
• Vision benefits
• 401(k) with a match
• Generous paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Paid day off for your birthday
• Other paid leave policies to support employees through all phases of life

Uniphore is one of the largest B2B AI-native companies—decades-proven, built-for-scale and designed for the enterprise. The company drives business outcomes, across multiple industry verticals, and enables the largest global deployments.

Uniphore infuses AI into every part of the enterprise that impacts the customer. We deliver the only multimodal architecture centered on customers that combines Generative AI, Knowledge AI, Emotion AI, workflow automation and a co-pilot to guide you. We understand better than anyone how to capture voice, video and text and how to analyze all types of data.

As AI becomes more powerful, every part of the enterprise that impacts the customer will be disrupted. We believe the future will run on the connective tissue between people, machines and data: all in the service of creating the most human processes and experiences for customers and employees.

Job Description:

Location: Hybrid, Palo Alto, CA

Department: Engineering

Reports To: Director, Forward Deployed Engineering

About Uniphore

Uniphore is The Business AI Company. We enable businesses to rapidly adopt, significantly transform and immediately unlock value through AI. Inspired by the simplicity of consumer AI and with a deep understanding of the scalability and security required for businesses – we provide a platform that allows business users to effortlessly harness agentic AI, tapping into enterprise knowledge that is grounded in their own proprietary data.

Through our core principles of providing composable, sovereign and secure AI, we are committed to unlocking AI’s potential as a transformative force for businesses – with openness, trust, and scalability provided by an AI solution that is unmatched by any other.

Our Business AI Cloud is a complete AI platform to power the Agentic Enterprise. It unifies data, knowledge, models, and agents in a secure, composable stack — enabling business users to deploy AI agents instantly and IT leaders to scale trusted, enterprise-grade applications

About the Role

As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Sr. FDE) at Uniphore, you will take technical ownership of strategic AI solution deployments and lead the architecture, prototyping, and delivery of customer-specific applications on our Agentic AI platform. This role demands a deep technical skillset, sharp solution thinking, and the ability to guide both customers and internal teams through complex, high-stakes AI projects.

You're not just coding - you're solving some of the most exciting challenges and problem solving in enterprise AI rollout, spanning enterprise data pipelines, multi-agent orchestration/workflows and RAG/SLM finetuning.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical solution design and implementation of large-scale Agentic and Knowledge AI solutions for key enterprise clients.
• Act as the primary technical point of contact during solution development and post-deployment optimization.
• Own and execute projects end-to-end: from integration design to agent workflows and full-stack delivery.
• Customize platform components as needed—integrating new APIs, building reusable tooling, or extending platform logic.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams internally and with customers to ensure solution success.
• Provide structured feedback to Platform Engineering and Product on feature gaps and customer pain points.
• Contribute to technical best practices and accelerate solution delivery through reusable assets, frameworks, and documentation.
• Champion observability, monitoring, versioning and telemetry to ensure trustworthy and auditable AI agents.
• Stay current on RAG, LLM/SLM advancements, Agentic AI tooling, vector/graph databases, retrieval optimizations, multi-modal systems, evaluation frameworks, GPU/Infra trends, fine tuning techniques, security/guardrails and broader landscape of Enterprise & Agentic AI.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate, master’s degree or Phd in Computer Science or Data Science
• 6–10+ years of experience in engineering, with 2+ years in customer-facing or field roles.
• Proven success building and deploying AI/ML or data-intensive applications in production.
• Deep full-stack development skills (Python, Node.js/Go, React/Vue) and DevOps experience (Docker, K8s, CI/CD).
• Expertise in building data pipelines and integrating with enterprise systems (REST, Python, SQL, GraphQL, Webhooks etc).
• Solid understanding of LLMs, Prompt engineering/tuning, Vector DBs (AstraDB, Pinecone, Weaviate etc), RAG pipelines (LlamaIndex, Haystack) and Agent/Workflow Orchestration (LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI)
• Knowledge of SLM Finetuning and Distillation is big advantage.
• Experience and knowledge of Agentic development platforms and experience building and delivery enterprise agentic solutions is a huge advantage.
• Ability to translate ambiguous customer needs into actionable engineering plans.
• Strong leadership, mentoring, and project ownership abilities.
• Excellent communication and collaboration across technical and business stakeholders.

Hiring Range:

$140,400 - $193,050 - for Primary Location of USA - CA - Palo Alto

The specific rate will depend on the successful candidate's qualifications and prior experience.

In addition to competitive base pay, this position also includes an annual incentive opportunity based on target achievement,  pre-IPO stock options, benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with a match, and more, plus generous paid time off, paid holidays, paid day off for your birthday and other paid leave policies to support employees through all phases of life.