management
Posted 2 days agoHead of Forward Deployed Engineering
at Replit
Foster City, United StatesRemote
Requirements
- Reporting to the President and Head of AI, you’ll lead a team operating at the intersection of engineering, product, and customer transformation.
- Your team will embed deeply with customers, solve hard technical problems, build production systems, and help define how enterprises adopt AI-native software development.
- Forward Deployed Engineers at Replit are software engineers who work directly with customers to build production systems, deploy AI-native workflows, and turn customer problems into reusable platform capabilities.
- This team should be among the most advanced users of Replit and AI-native development workflows inside the company.
- We expect Forward Deployed Engineers to aggressively use AI agents, automation, and Replit itself to increase leverage and accelerate customer outcomes.
- experience in engineering, infrastructure, developer tools, applied AI, or customer engineering environments -
- Experience leading Forward Deployed Engineering, Applied AI, Solutions Architecture, or Strategic Engineering teams - Deep curiosity around AI-native software development and strong instincts for how AI changes engineering workflows -
- Experience leading high-performing technical organizations - Strong technical judgment and the ability to operate credibly with senior engineers and executives -
- Experience with AI agents, LLM workflows, or developer tooling platforms -
- Experience supporting Fortune 500 engineering organizations - Startup or founder experience -
- Experience working closely with Product organizations to shape roadmap direction THIS ROLE MAY NOT BE A FIT IF - You prefer highly structured environments with clearly defined boundaries - You want to stay purely managerial and far from technical details - You optimize for process over speed - You are uncomfortable operating directly with customers - You prefer maintaining systems over building new ones from scratch Full-Time Employee
Experience
- EXPERIENCE - 12+ years of
Benefits
- Benefits Include: 💰 Competitive Salary & Equity 💹 401(k) Program with a 4% match (US Only) ⚕️ Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance 🩼 Short Term and Long Term Disability 🚼 Paid Parental, Medical, Caregiver Leave 🏝 Flexible Time Off (FTO) + Holidays 🚗 Commuter