About the Job
The Forward Deployed Solutions Engineer – AIM independently owns significant, complex technical workstreams within a defined Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) engagement. Working within agreed architecture, governance, and engagement priorities, this role translates customer domain workflows, requirements, data, integrations, and deployment constraints into reliable working thin-slice solutions. The engineer is accountable for technical quality, schedule, customer value, reusable outputs, contributor coordination, and timely escalation of broader architecture or portfolio trade-offs.
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Key Responsibilities
- Own significant, complex FDE technical workstreams from discovery and planning through validation and handover.
- Define the workstream approach, delivery plan, quality measures, and acceptance criteria within agreed architecture and governance.
- Translate customer requirements, data, integrations, workflows, and constraints into reliable working thin-slice solutions.
- Build, configure, integrate, prototype, test, troubleshoot, and validate solutions in real customer environments.
- Make practical implementation decisions and resolve non-routine technical issues across APIs, data flows, configuration, AI, security, performance, scalability, and deployment.
- Balance customer value, technical feasibility, delivery velocity, quality, reuse, and production readiness.
- Coordinate engineers and cross-functional contributors to deliver measurable workstream outcomes.
- Lead technical discovery, demonstrations, testing, acceptance, performance checks, and production-readiness activities for assigned workstreams.
- Create reusable connectors, configurations, templates, components, AI patterns, accelerators, and implementation playbooks.
- Capture technical learning, product gaps, constraints, and improvement opportunities for Product, R&D, Leads, Architects, and future engagements.
Essential Skills
- Typically around 8-10 years of relevant experience, or equivalent demonstrated capability in industrial technology implementation and complex technical delivery.
- Deep hands-on capability in solution configuration, integration, testing, troubleshooting, validation, and handover.
- Strong working knowledge of products, customer domain workflows, industrial data, customer systems, APIs, cloud/edge, security, performance, and deployment constraints.
- Brings a unique blend of software development using various AI techniques and models along with application engineering expertise.
- Ability to apply domain context to technical scoping, solution fit, trade-off decisions, value framing, and validation outcomes.
- Strong software design, implementation, programming, connector, data-flow, scripting, and system-integration capability.
- Experience in developing AI Agents, Skills, Tools, Plugins, etc. using any one of the agentic frameworks preferably MAF.
- Familiarity with AI tools for SDLC like Copilot & practical awareness of AI/ML and Generative AI use cases within agreed technical, safety, and governance guidance.
- Sound judgment in resolving non-routine technical issues and making implementation trade-offs within agreed architecture and policy.
- Strong customer-facing technical communication and ability to translate complex needs into practical implementation approaches.
- Ability to coordinate cross-functional contributors and coach less-experienced engineers while remaining hands-on and accountable for workstream outcomes.
What Success Looks Like
- Complex FDE technical workstreams are delivered independently, with clear ownership of technical quality, timelines, validation, and customer-value outcomes.
- Customer workflows, data, integrations, and constraints are translated into reliable working thin-slice solutions that demonstrate measurable value.
- Implementation trade-offs are made with sound judgment, balancing feasibility, speed, quality, reuse, security, performance, and production readiness.
- Reusable connectors, configurations, templates, components, AI patterns, accelerators, and implementation playbooks improve future FDE delivery.
- Product, R&D, Leads, Architects, and future engagement teams receive clear, practical learning on product gaps, constraints, and improvement opportunities.
Services
Our dynamic global team of 700+ engineers, developers, consultants, solution architects, and project managers are at the forefront of delivering cutting-edge solutions to customers. The work is complex and technical, but immensely rewarding: we empower customers to harness the full transformative potential of solutions. If you’re analytical, pragmatic, and driven to make a tangible impact on the sustainability of the industrial sector, our team is the perfect place for you.
Additional Information
- Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Employment Type: Full-time, hybrid (50% office presence)
- Background checks are required for successful applicants before they start employment, consistent with local laws.
- The company is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all are treated with dignity and respect.
