Senior Forward Deployed Engineer II
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Job Location:
Seattle, OR - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 156000 - 248000
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Talkdesk is pioneering a new era of Customer Experience Automation (CXA) redefining how the worlds most admired brands interact with their customers through AI. Our global team of courageous innovators is customer-obsessed building AI-first solutions that put empathy trust and transparency at the center of every interaction. We foster an inclusive culture where diverse perspectives drive our success and every voice belongs. Combining the stability of a global leader with the agility of a disruptor Talkdeskers are empowered with the autonomy to drive meaningful impact while giving back to the communities and environment around us.
Talkdesk has been recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) and in the G2 Overall Grid Reports for AI Agents and Contact Center. With seven consecutive years on the Forbes Cloud 100 and multiple AI Breakthrough awards there has never been a more exciting time to join us as we shape the future of customer experience automation!
The Senior Forward Deployed Engineer II (FDE) is a high-impact technical leader responsible for translating the immense power of Talkdesks Agentic AI platform into transformative production-grade solutions for our strategic enterprise customers.
You are a unique blend of a highly experienced software engineer a technical project lead and a hands-on builder. You own the technical execution for deployments mitigate technical risks and drive successful customer outcomes across assigned projects. This role is for the experienced builder who excels in high-stakes customer-facing environments and is passionate about defining the future of Customer Experience Automation.
Responsibilities
- Technical Project Leadership & Architecture: Act as the technical lead for complex deployments. Design and implement the architectural blueprint for AI agent solutions manage cross-system dependencies and ensure designs meet stringent enterprise standards for security and scale.
- Hands-On Engineering & Delivery: Write production-grade code and leverage Talkdesk and 3rd-party APIs/SDKs to design build test and deploy AI agents. Drive the execution from prototype through to production deployment ensuring technical quality.
- Technical Consultation & Alignment: Serve as a trusted technical expert for our AI solutions. Confidently address deep technical inquiries mitigate technical risk and build trust with customer Engineering Directors and technical architects.
- Influence Product & Engineering Roadmap: Synthesize and codify deployment learnings into reusable solution patterns and tooling. Provide actionable feedback to core Product and Engineering teams to help inform future product direction.
- Technical Guidance: Mentor junior FDEs and technical specialists on best practices for complex AI architecture production quality and client-facing technical delivery.
Who You Are
We are looking for an autonomous results-driven technical leader who thrives at the intersection of breakthrough technology and measurable customer value.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of 5-7 years of progressive experience in software or solution engineering with at least 1 years focused on architecting and deploying AI/ML/Agentic solutions.
- Strong Experience in Agentic AI System Architecture: Proven experience in the design and end-to-end implementation of complex multi-agent systems encompassing sophisticated planning memory and tool-use frameworks.
- Proficiency in Javascript Python Typescript and other relevant languages with a focus on writing secure scalable and tested production code.
- Deep expertise in systems integration (APIs webhooks message queues) and data architecture to ensure secure compliant and performant data flow for the agent across complex customer environments.
- Strong proficiency in prompt engineering model optimization and designing systems where agents collaborate to achieve complex outcomes.
- Proven ability to build credibility and consensus with customer executives lead technical discussions and drive alignment across internal and external teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems including hands-on experience with vector databases (e.g. Pinecone Weaviate Milvus).
- Experience with Healthcare / Financial Services systems are a plus.
- Prior experience in the Contact Center (CCaaS) Unified Communications (UCaaS) or Customer Experience (CX) industry.
THE PAY TRANSPARENCY INFORMATION BELOW IS ONLY APPLICABLE TO ROLES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES:
Pay Range (Base Pay): $156000 - $248000
Other Types of Pay:Based on level and role the employee may be eligible for long term incentives in the form of equity and short term incentives of either bonus or commission.
Health Insurance:Medical Dental Vision Life and Disability Insurance Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
Retirement Benefits:401(k) plan
Paid Time Off:Talkdesk offers an uncapped paid time off program subject to manager approval and consistent with business needs.
Paid Holidays: Talkdesk offers 14 paid holidays each year.
Paid Sick Leave:Employees have uncapped paid time off subject to manager approval and consistent with business needs.
Method of Application:Apply online.
Application Window: The application window is expected to close at least 7 days from the posting date. The application was posted on 02/09/2025.
All questions or concerns about this posting should be directed to the Talent team at .
Work Environment and Physical Requirements:
Primarily office-environment work extended periods of sitting or standing computer-based work. Limited lifting and equipment usage limited to computer-related equipment (keyboards mouse etc.)
The Talkdesk story hinges on empathy and acceptance. It is the shared goal among all Talkdeskers to empower a new kind of customer hero through our innovative software solution and we firmly believe that the best path to success for our mission is inclusivity diversity and genuine acceptance. To that end we will hire promote work along cheer for bond with and warmly welcome into the Talkdesk family all persons without regard to ethnic and racial identity indigenous heritage national origin religion gender gender identity gender expression sexual orientation age disability marital status veteran status genetic information or any other legally protected status.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
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About Company
Talkdesk is the leader in Customer Experience Automation (CXA), using AI and real-time data to automate customer journeys, reduce costs, and improve outcomes.
