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Who We Are:
Exiger is the AI partner for supply chain and procurement automation. Its centralized 1EXIGER.AI platform allows organizations to manage their entire operating network, from parts to suppliers, regulators, and customers, through an autonomous agentic workforce that learns, adapts, and augments with every decision. The AI-native platform, combined with the largest supply chain knowledge asset, empowers 550+ global customers, including 150 Fortune 500 and 80+ government and defense industrial organizations, to act first. Exiger is FedRAMP® authorized and a 2x Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Supplier Risk Management.
Director, Forward Deployed Strategy
Location: Mclean, VA OR Richmond, VA | Work Environment: Hybrid
We're looking for a Forward Deployed Strategist Director to lead from the front as a technical translator on our forward deployment teams, working alongside our forward deployed engineers to help enterprise customers rapidly deploy AI-native solutions to complex supply chain and risk challenges, in days, not months. You'll be accountable for the success of customer implementations with minimal hand-holding, turning vague organizational problems into scoped roadmaps and keeping the customer and our technical team aligned. As an AI-oriented company, we want an adept problem solver who can credibly help customers strategize agentic solutions on some of the most pressing, geopolitically sensitive issues they face.
What You'll Do
- Own the Mission & Program Success: Partner directly with customer executives and operators to understand their heaviest operational bottlenecks and translate vague problems into scoped technical roadmaps, delivering clear program plans, surfacing critical risks, and driving mitigations with minimal hand-holding.
- Technical Translator: Serve as the bridge between the customer and our technical team: communicate customer needs to our forward deployed engineers in terms they can build against, and steer customers toward designs that fit our platform's capabilities and rules.
- Align Engineering to Customer Value: Work alongside forward deployed builders to keep engineering effort focused on the customer's highest-value problems, and coordinate the many internal and customer stakeholders who touch each program.
- Drive Change & Adoption: Act as a change agent within complex organizations, leading workshops, designing user-centric workflows, and training end users to ensure high adoption.
- Hands-on Data Analysis: Stay close to the data: inspect customer data structures, validate data integrity, and run rapid prototyping and ad hoc analysis using SQL, Snowflake, Python, and R, and help customers strategize agentic solutions.
- Product Feedback Loop: Act as the voice of the customer, abstracting client-specific needs into reusable platform capabilities and feeding field requirements back to product and engineering.
What You Need
- Consulting Experience: 4–6 years in operations consulting (Big Four, Accenture, or similar) or technology operations, including delivering or overseeing technology implementations or deployments.
- The Hybrid Skill Set: A blend of technical aptitude (computational thinking, data manipulation) and elite communication, storytelling, and relationship-management skills, with the credibility to advise customer executives rather than take orders.
- Technical Baseline: Proficiency querying and analyzing datasets with SQL and Snowflake, and light scripting in Python and R, plus a solid understanding of how enterprise software, data architecture, and cloud environments operate. You'll need to be credible with technical counterparts and understand what is being built, but you won't be expected to build it yourself.
- Domain Context: Exposure to the defense industrial base or heavy industrial sectors (including through consulting engagements), ideally with highly engineered, long-lead-time products.
- Ambiguity & Grit: A self-starter who is comfortable in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and under delivery pressure, and who brings structure to chaos.
- Mobility: US-based and a US citizen, with the ability to travel up to 25% to work directly with customers.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in supply chain risk management (SCRM), or in SCRM combined with compliance (for example, trade, customs, or export compliance advisory).
- Experience at a technology company in or adjacent to the SCRM and compliance space.
We're an amazing place to work. Why?
- Discretionary Time Off for all employees, with no maximum limits on time off
- Industry leading health, vision, and dental benefits
- Competitive compensation package
- 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
- Flexible, hybrid approach to working from home and in the office where applicable
- Focus on wellness and employee health through stipends and dedicated wellness programming
- Purposeful career development programs with reimbursement provided for educational certifications
Artificial intelligence tools may be used to support candidate screening and evaluation.
#LI-Hybrid
Exiger is named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Supplier Risk Management, twice selected as one of Fast Company's 'Brands That Matter,' and recipient of the Third Party Risk Association's Innovator Award, Exiger's technology has been recognized by leading analyst evaluations and 50+ awards. Learn more at Exiger.com and follow Exiger on LinkedIn.
At Exiger, our values define how we work and why we lead. We are mission-inspired, imagination-driven, trust-anchored, and compassion-focused—committed to building technology that makes the world safer, more transparent, and more resilient.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.
Exiger's hybrid work policy is periodically reviewed and adjusted to align with evolving business needs.
Who We Are:
Exiger is the AI partner for supply chain and procurement automation. Its centralized 1EXIGER.AI platform allows organizations to manage their entire operating network, from parts to suppliers, regulators, and customers, through an autonomous agentic workforce that learns, adapts, and augments with every decision. The AI-native platform, combined with the largest supply chain knowledge asset, empowers 550+ global customers, including 150 Fortune 500 and 80+ government and defense industrial organizations, to act first. Exiger is FedRAMP® authorized and a 2x Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Supplier Risk Management.
Director, Forward Deployed Strategy
Location: Mclean, VA OR Richmond, VA | Work Environment: Hybrid
We're looking for a Forward Deployed Strategist Director to lead from the front as a technical translator on our forward deployment teams, working alongside our forward deployed engineers to help enterprise customers rapidly deploy AI-native solutions to complex supply chain and risk challenges, in days, not months. You'll be accountable for the success of customer implementations with minimal hand-holding, turning vague organizational problems into scoped roadmaps and keeping the customer and our technical team aligned. As an AI-oriented company, we want an adept problem solver who can credibly help customers strategize agentic solutions on some of the most pressing, geopolitically sensitive issues they face.
What You'll Do
- Own the Mission & Program Success: Partner directly with customer executives and operators to understand their heaviest operational bottlenecks and translate vague problems into scoped technical roadmaps, delivering clear program plans, surfacing critical risks, and driving mitigations with minimal hand-holding.
- Technical Translator: Serve as the bridge between the customer and our technical team: communicate customer needs to our forward deployed engineers in terms they can build against, and steer customers toward designs that fit our platform's capabilities and rules.
- Align Engineering to Customer Value: Work alongside forward deployed builders to keep engineering effort focused on the customer's highest-value problems, and coordinate the many internal and customer stakeholders who touch each program.
- Drive Change & Adoption: Act as a change agent within complex organizations, leading workshops, designing user-centric workflows, and training end users to ensure high adoption.
- Hands-on Data Analysis: Stay close to the data: inspect customer data structures, validate data integrity, and run rapid prototyping and ad hoc analysis using SQL, Snowflake, Python, and R, and help customers strategize agentic solutions.
- Product Feedback Loop: Act as the voice of the customer, abstracting client-specific needs into reusable platform capabilities and feeding field requirements back to product and engineering.
What You Need
- Consulting Experience: 4–6 years in operations consulting (Big Four, Accenture, or similar) or technology operations, including delivering or overseeing technology implementations or deployments.
- The Hybrid Skill Set: A blend of technical aptitude (computational thinking, data manipulation) and elite communication, storytelling, and relationship-management skills, with the credibility to advise customer executives rather than take orders.
- Technical Baseline: Proficiency querying and analyzing datasets with SQL and Snowflake, and light scripting in Python and R, plus a solid understanding of how enterprise software, data architecture, and cloud environments operate. You'll need to be credible with technical counterparts and understand what is being built, but you won't be expected to build it yourself.
- Domain Context: Exposure to the defense industrial base or heavy industrial sectors (including through consulting engagements), ideally with highly engineered, long-lead-time products.
- Ambiguity & Grit: A self-starter who is comfortable in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and under delivery pressure, and who brings structure to chaos.
- Mobility: US-based and a US citizen, with the ability to travel up to 25% to work directly with customers.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in supply chain risk management (SCRM), or in SCRM combined with compliance (for example, trade, customs, or export compliance advisory).
- Experience at a technology company in or adjacent to the SCRM and compliance space.
We're an amazing place to work. Why?
- Discretionary Time Off for all employees, with no maximum limits on time off
- Industry leading health, vision, and dental benefits
- Competitive compensation package
- 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
- Flexible, hybrid approach to working from home and in the office where applicable
- Focus on wellness and employee health through stipends and dedicated wellness programming
- Purposeful career development programs with reimbursement provided for educational certifications
Artificial intelligence tools may be used to support candidate screening and evaluation.
#LI-Hybrid
Exiger is named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Supplier Risk Management, twice selected as one of Fast Company's 'Brands That Matter,' and recipient of the Third Party Risk Association's Innovator Award, Exiger's technology has been recognized by leading analyst evaluations and 50+ awards. Learn more at Exiger.com and follow Exiger on LinkedIn.
At Exiger, our values define how we work and why we lead. We are mission-inspired, imagination-driven, trust-anchored, and compassion-focused—committed to building technology that makes the world safer, more transparent, and more resilient.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.
Exiger's hybrid work policy is periodically reviewed and adjusted to align with evolving business needs.
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Who's Hiring
- Databricks57
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- Palantir Technologies25
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- Technology & Software141
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- Staffing & Recruiting10
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in senior forward deployed engineer jobs.
- 5+ years of hands-on software engineering or solutions engineering experience in customer-facing environments
- Proficiency in at least one major programming language such as Python, Go, or Java for integration work
- Experience deploying and configuring enterprise SaaS platforms or cloud-native infrastructure at customer sites
- Strong ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to both executive and engineering stakeholders
- Familiarity with REST APIs, cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure, and modern authentication protocols
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
Tips for Your Senior Forward Deployed Engineer Job Search
Tailor your resume to deployment depth
Hiring managers for this role want to see how deeply you embedded with customers, not just that you did implementations. Quantify the complexity of each engagement: number of integrations, systems touched, and how you reduced time-to-value for the customer.
Highlight cross-functional ownership in your materials
Senior forward deployed engineer roles sit at the intersection of product, sales, and engineering. Your resume should show moments where you influenced the product roadmap from the field or acted as a technical voice in customer-facing sales cycles, not just post-sale support.
Target companies with large enterprise customer bases
Companies selling complex software to Fortune 500 clients hire senior forward deployed engineers most aggressively. Filter your search toward vendors in data infrastructure, security, and developer tooling where deployment complexity justifies a dedicated senior technical presence in the field.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists senior forward deployed engineer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a deployment case study for interviews
Most interviews for this role include a technical scenario where you diagnose a failing customer integration or design an onboarding plan from scratch. Prepare one real deployment story with a clear problem, your technical decisions, and the measurable outcome you delivered for the customer.
Negotiate scope and travel expectations upfront
Travel requirements for senior forward deployed engineers vary widely, from fully remote to 50 percent on-site. Before accepting, clarify the expected number of customer sites per quarter and whether travel is reimbursed or built into a flat allowance, so there are no surprises after you start.
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most senior forward deployed engineers?
The companies hiring the most senior forward deployed engineers right now include Databricks, Deloitte, and Palantir Technologies, with the largest share of openings in California, New York, and Texas, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Enterprise software vendors and cybersecurity platforms tend to maintain the most consistent hiring volume for this role.
How many senior forward deployed engineer jobs are remote?
About 67% of senior forward deployed engineer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, though the share varies significantly by company stage and product complexity. Roles focused on pre-sale technical evaluation and cloud-native products skew more remote, while those requiring on-site system integration or regulated-industry deployments typically require frequent travel.
How do you become a senior forward deployed engineer?
Most senior forward deployed engineers come from software engineering, solutions engineering, or technical account management roles where they worked directly with customers on complex implementations. Building depth in a specific technical domain, such as data pipelines, security tooling, or cloud infrastructure, strengthens your candidacy. Demonstrating that you can own a customer relationship end-to-end, from onboarding through expansion, is what moves you from mid-level to senior in this function.
Can I get hired as a senior forward deployed engineer without direct experience in the role?
Yes, but your background needs to map closely to the core responsibilities. Employers regularly hire into senior forward deployed engineer positions from software engineering roles where you spent significant time on customer integrations, or from solutions engineering where you handled post-sale technical delivery. The gap is easiest to close if you can show a record of working independently at customer sites and influencing product decisions based on field feedback.
What does the senior forward deployed engineer interview process look like?
The process typically includes an initial recruiter screen, a technical phone interview covering systems design or API architecture, and at least one live scenario round where you work through a customer deployment problem with an engineering or solutions team. Many companies also include a presentation round where you walk through a past implementation. Expect questions about how you handle escalations, scope creep, and situations where customer requirements conflict with the product roadmap.
Where can I find and apply to senior forward deployed engineer jobs?
You can find and apply to senior forward deployed engineer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your experience level and technical focus, then apply directly to each one that fits.
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