Replit
Head of Forward Deployed Engineering
Foster City, CA · Exec · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 41 days ago
LLMsAgentic AIA/B TestingSalesLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- This is not a traditional solutions engineering or post-sales role.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Hire and develop a high-talent-density team of Forward Deployed Engineers
- Build a team culture centered around speed, ownership, pragmatism, and customer impact
- Create systems and tooling that allow the team to scale without becoming process-heavy
- Lead complex technical engagements involving integrations, infrastructure, agents, automation, and internal developer platforms
- Lead teams building real applications and workflows directly inside customer environments
- Jump into architecture reviews, debugging sessions, implementation strategy, or live builds when needed
- Partner closely with Product and Engineering to upstream learnings from customer deployments into the core platform
- You optimize for process over speed
- You prefer maintaining systems over building new ones from scratch
Requirements
- This role requires strong technical depth, product instincts, customer judgment, and the ability to operate at high velocity in ambiguous environments.
Nice to have
- 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
- You prefer highly structured environments with clearly defined boundaries
- You want to stay purely managerial and far from technical details
- 💹 401(k) Program with a 4% match (US Only)
- 🧑💻 Autonomous Work Environment
Skills
- 12+ years of 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
- Strong product instincts and systems thinking
- Comfortable operating with ambiguity and minimal process
- Excellent communication and customer leadership skills
- Strong sense of ownership and urgency
Compensation
- 💰 Competitive Salary & Equity
Company info
- Replit Blog https://blog.replit.com/
- Amjad TED Talk https://youtu.be/kCudFI4tcpg?si=l4ViCejV_f2RZkDi
- Operating Principles https://blog.replit.com/operating-principles
- Reasons not to work at Replit https://blog.replit.com/reasons-not-to-join-replit
- Partner with engineering leaders, product teams, and executives at some of Replit's largest enterprise customers
- Help customers redesign workflows around AI-native software development
- Unblock high-stakes deployments and help customers move from experimentation to production adoption
- Drive rapid prototyping and iteration cycles with customers
- You are uncomfortable operating directly with customers
This listing is sourced directly from Replit's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.