Forward Deployed Engineer (N. America)

Responsibilities

• Akka is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) who perfectly balances sharp technical capability with elite, client-facing communication. This is an interactive, high-impact role. You are not a "behind the scenes" developer, nor are you a high-level consultant who just talks strategy. You are an adaptable, sharp engineer who can command a room of enterprise developers, understand their architectures, and teach them how to build production-grade applications on our agentic platform.
• Educational Leadership: Design and deliver highly engaging technical workshops, architectural deep-dives, and hands-on training sessions to customer development teams, taking them from zero to proficient on the Akka tech stack.
• Technical Mentorship & Pairing: Act as a core technical anchor. Enable customer developers through architectural guidance, pairing on complex production logic, and building "spikes" (proofs of concept) that the customer then owns and scales.
• System Hardening: Provide the technical expertise needed for customers to harden their own environments, helping them build policy ladders with extensive guardrails and mitigated deployment risks.
• Deployment Excellence: Ensure customer applications are resilient, production-ready, and scalable. You provide the tools, SRE best practices, and systems knowledge required for a safe, repeatable path to production.
• 3. Strategic Partnership
• Agentic AI & Logic Systems Expertise: Deep, hands-on proficiency in constructing complex logic systems using LLMs and multi-agent frameworks. You must be highly skilled in context engineering, managing semantic data, designing dynamic orchestration flows, and implementing multi-agent interactions.
• AI Safety, Guardrails, & Evaluation: Strong background in building enterprise-grade policy ladders and implementing robust guardrails to ensure agentic behavior remains predictable and safe. Experience building AI test suites for continuous evaluation and model performance measurement is highly desired.
• Elite Communication & Client Polish: You must possess native-level English verbal and written fluency. You can confidently lead technical presentations, command a room of enterprise engineers, and translate complex concepts into clear, structured discussions.
• Hyper-Fast Technical Adaptability: A voracious learner who thrives in ambiguity. You have a proven track record of picking up new languages, frameworks, and cutting-edge AI paradigms in days, not weeks, and can confidently write code and build prototypes within them.

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