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Lead - Forward Deployed

Bangalore Permanent View Job Description
Join a high-impact AI company as a Forward Deployed Engineering Lead, owning strategic enterprise accounts and delivering customer-specific AI solutions that drive measurable business outcomes. This role combines deep technical expertise, customer leadership, team management, and hands-on engineering to build and scale AI systems across complex enterprise environments.
  • Lead AI transformation for enterprise clients
  • Own end-to-end customer technical outcomes

About Our Client

Our client is a rapidly growing AI-native technology company helping enterprises build and deploy domain-specific AI agents at scale. The organisation has developed proprietary AI models and agentic platforms focused on delivering secure, scalable, and cost-efficient AI solutions across industries, backed by leading global investors and strategic partnerships with major technology companies.

Job Description

As the Forward Deployed Engineering Lead, you will serve as the primary technical owner for strategic enterprise customers, driving their AI transformation journey from implementation through long-term expansion. You will architect and deploy customer-specific AI solutions, integrate with enterprise technology ecosystems, lead customer-facing technical engagements, and manage a team of engineers delivering business-critical workflows.Key responsibilities include:

  • Owning customer technical roadmaps and delivery outcomes.
  • Designing and deploying AI-powered applications and agent-based workflows.
  • Leading integrations across ERP, CRM, identity, and data platforms.
  • Driving model evaluation, optimisation, and customer-specific fine-tuning initiatives.
  • Managing technical stakeholder relationships and executive communications.
  • Leading and mentoring a team of engineers within customer accounts.
  • Partnering closely with Customer Success teams to deliver value and expand engagements.
  • Identifying repeatable solutions and contributing to platform evolution.
  • Building outcome measurement frameworks and customer-facing dashboards.
  • Remaining hands-on with coding, architecture, and implementation activities



The Successful Applicant

The ideal candidate will possess:

  • 8-12 years of software engineering, AI engineering, or applied machine learning experience.
  • Strong experience in customer-facing technical roles with ownership of business outcomes.
  • Proven expertise building production-grade AI, LLM, or agentic systems.
  • Full-stack engineering capabilities across backend, frontend, data, and infrastructure.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and modern AI/ML frameworks.
  • Experience integrating enterprise platforms such as Salesforce, SAP, Snowflake, ServiceNow, Workday, or similar technologies.
  • Demonstrated success leading engineering teams and mentoring developers.
  • Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills.
  • Domain exposure within industries such as healthcare, financial services, logistics, retail, or supply chain.
  • A highly outcome-oriented mindset with a passion for applying AI to solve real business challenges



What's on Offer

  • Opportunity to shape AI transformation programmes for leading enterprises.
  • High-ownership leadership role with direct customer impact.
  • Exposure to cutting-edge agentic AI, machine learning, and enterprise-scale deployments.
  • Collaborative and innovation-focused culture that rewards curiosity and continuous learning.
  • Career growth within a fast-scaling AI organisation backed by globally recognised investors and technology partners.
Quote job ref
JN-092026-7107759

Job summary

Function
Information Technology
Sub Sector
IT Development
What is your area of specialisation?
Technology & Telecoms
Location
Bangalore
Job Type
Permanent
Job Reference
JN-092026-7107759

Diversity & Inclusion at Michael Page

We don't just accept difference - we celebrate it. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply for this role and are committed to building inclusive, diverse workplaces where everyone can thrive. If you require any support or reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.