What are the responsibilities and job description for the Forward Deployed Engineer position at Marlabs LLC?
Forward Deployed Engineer
Work locations: Alpharetta, GA
Duration: 18 Months
Required Qualifications
- 10 years in software engineering, with 4 years in client-facing deployment, solutions or implementation engineering.
- 2 years leading engineers, formally or as a tech lead across multiple concurrent deployments.
- Deep hands-on skills: Python and/or TypeScript, APIs and integrations, SQL, cloud infrastructure (AWS/Google Cloud Platform), and production monitoring.
- Practical experience shipping LLM-based systems: prompting, RAG, function calling, evaluation and guardrails.
- A proven record of delivering complex systems to enterprise or public-sector clients under tight timelines and shifting requirements.
- Willingness to travel and to be on-site during critical deployment phases.