Senior Forward Deployed Engineer Agentic Development Lifecycle

Our client is launching their Agentic Development practice in Singapore. This is a Day 1 market-creation hire. Most enterprise teams in Singapore are experimenting with AI coding assistants. Very few have made the jump to a true agentic lifecycle - where agents are orchestrated to own planning implementation testing review and release as part of the engineering team.

We are hiring a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to be that bridge. You will be deployed inside enterprise engineering orgs prove whats possible in 30 days and then scale it org-wide.

Payroll benefits and compliance for this role will be managed by EOR partner in Singapore. Your day-to-day mission clients and technical mandate will come directly from the client.

What Youll Own

1. Client Transformation - From Pilot to Scale

You are the field lead. You will run discovery map the clients current SDLC identify high-ROI agentic opportunities and run focused 4-week pilots with their engineers. Your goal is to convert pilots into multi-team transformation programs and become the trusted advisor to their CTO / VP Eng.

2. Build The Agentic Operating Model

You will design how agents actually work in an enterprise:

• Build reusable orchestration layers - rules skills sub-agents hooks background / cloud agents
• Create synchronous and asynchronous workflows that take toil away from humans - backlog triage test generation migration scripts dependency upgrades
• Connect agents to the enterprise - MCP servers SDKs internal APIs Jira / GitHub / CI systems
• Extend beyond engineering into Product Design QA and PM to close the loop

3. Make It Enterprise-Ready

Enterprises dont scale what they dont trust. You will:

• Put guardrails in place - AI code review security scanning policy checks eval harnesses
• Run pragmatic model and tool evaluations - what model for what task cost vs. quality trade-offs
• Define metrics that matter - adoption cycle time review time defect rate - and report them to leadership to drive expansion

What Success Looks Like in 6 Months

• 2-3 enterprise pilots delivered in Singapore and converted into expansion
• A Singapore-specific ADLC playbook that other FDEs can reuse
• Reference architectures demos and case studies that unblock the sales cycle

Who You Are

• Builder first. Youve been an engineer for 8-12 years and you are hands-on every day.
• Field proven. 2-5 years in a client-facing technical role - Forward Deployed Solutions Engineering DevRel or Tech Consulting. You are comfortable whiteboarding with engineers in the morning and presenting ROI to a CTO in the afternoon.
• Agentic native. For the last 1-3 years agentic tools have been your default way of building not a side project. You have opinions on agent design that come from real enterprise use.
• 0-to-1 mindset. You know how to create structure when there is no playbook no big team and no existing brand in the market.
• Commercially sharp. You know how to turn a good technical outcome into a business case for expansion.

Technical Bar

• Expert-level with modern agentic IDEs - agent modes cloud agents context / rules management
• Agent orchestration patterns - skills sub-agents hooks tool use
• MCP and SDK-based integrations
• Strong software fundamentals in at least two stacks - TypeScript / Node Python Java Go or Mobile
• Fluent in Git workflows CI/CD testing strategies and where agents add leverage in each
• Solid grasp of LLM mechanics - context engineering prompt design model routing evals cost optimization
• Bonus: Experience with enterprise rollout of dev tools - SSO usage analytics spend controls data governance

Employment Details

• Hiring Model: Full-time employee hired through a Singapore EOR
• Payroll: Salary in SGD statutory benefits leave handled by EOR