Senior Forward Deployment Engineer

Senior Forward Deployment Engineer

Cornerstone OnDemand is looking for aForward Deployment Engineer (FDE) who will lead the design development anddeployment of AI-powered solutions using AWS AI services Bedrock andGenerative AI technologies. You will be responsible for building intelligentautomation solutions and creating custom Gen AI applications serving ascritical bridge between Cornerstones product engineering teams and ourstrategic enterprise customer teams to ensure seamless integration and deliveryof Agentic applications. As an FDE you will drive successful deployments ofAI-powered Workforce Agility products and assist customerneeds intoproduct innovations.

In this role you will

• Assist with technical deployments andintegrations of Cornerstones AI-native Workforce Agility products at strategic enterprise accounts ensuring high-impact successful outcomes.
• Work closely with customer engagements owning solution architecture implementation strategy and long-term adoptionplanning.
• Partner directly with customers todeeply understand their workforce challenges then design and deliver tailoredAI-driven solutions leveraging Generative AI and Agentic Frameworks.
• Identify and prototype customsolutions including scripts APIs and AI workflow extensions thataccelerate customer time-to-value.
• Stay current with enterpriseintegration technologies AI advancements and industry trends to continuouslyelevate customer engagements.
• Conduct regular clientcheck-ins demos and progress reviews proactively communicating risksblockers and milestones.
• Drive technical decisions by evaluatingframeworks tools and approaches with a bias for simplicity and long-termmaintainability.
• Identify recurring problems and invest inautomation tooling or process improvements that benefit the broaderteam.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and contributeto both internal engineering discussions and external client-facingpresentations.

Youve got what it takes if you have

• Bachelors or Masters in ComputerScience Engineering or a closely related field (or equivalent experience insenior enterprise technical roles).
• 3 years of hands-on experience inenterprise software deployment systems integration or solutions engineering with strong proficiency in Python Java or equivalent.
• 12 years of experience deploying orintegrating products built on Generative AI LLMs or Agentic Frameworks inproduction enterprise environments.
• Familiarity with AI/ML concepts(NLP recommendation systems LLMs vector databases semantic search)sufficient to implement AI-native solutions.
• Design and develop scalable APIs and microservices for AI modeldeployment and MCP integration.
• Ownership mindset yousee things through from start to finish without waiting to be told what to donext.
• Excellent communication skills ability to articulatetechnical trade-offs to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders withclarity and confidence.
• Demonstrated ability to lead by influence driving alignmentacross teams mentoring peers and raising engineering standards.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to track prioritizeand deliver across multiple concurrent workstreams independently.
• A bias for action balanced with sound judgment you move fast butdont cut corners.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a track record of turning vaguerequirements into concrete deliverable plans.
• Outstanding problem-solving instincts able to diagnoseambiguous customer environments quickly and drive toward solutions underpressure.

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Our Culture:

Spark Greatness. Shatter Boundaries. Share Success. Are you ready Because here right now is where the future of work is happening. Where curious disruptors and change innovators like you are helping communities and customers enable everyone anywhere to learn grow and advance. To be better tomorrow than they are today.

Who We Are:

At Cornerstone we believe in AI that works in the service of people amplifying their judgment to drive high-performing future-ready organizations forward. Cornerstone Workforce AI the intelligence platform for workforce readiness brings together workforce and labor market data into a proprietary Cornerstone People Graph translating signals into intelligence targeting learning where it matters developing critical skills and surfacing hidden talent. Delivered as an open enterprise platform across whatever application your people work in every day Cornerstone Workforce AI is built for scale security and trust with certified AI guardrails. As an industry leader Cornerstone is helping approximately 7000 organizations 140M users across 186 countries build continuous workforce readiness.

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Required Experience:

Senior IC