Head of Deployed Engineering

Join our team as the Head of Deployed Engineering, where you will lead our forward deployed engineers in building prototype agents and shipping production code. You will work directly with our largest enterprise customers, write production code, and act as a trusted advisor on AI agents. As the team grows, your focus will shift towards leadership, but you will always remain close to the work. You will report to our CTO/co-founder and work closely with Product, Engineering, and Customer leadership.

Lead important deployments and own technical delivery for enterprise customers, including writing production code and solving technical problems.

About Fieldguide

Excitement about bringing AI agents into high-stakes professional work

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the forward deployed engineering team, hiring, coaching, and growing strong engineers who can build and work directly with customers.
• Turn field work into product by spotting patterns across deployments and working with Product and Engineering to make solutions reusable.
• Comfort in front of senior enterprise stakeholders, especially in regulated or complex environments

Requirements

• You still build. You've written production software recently and want to keep doing it. This role isn't a fit for someone looking for a manage-only role
• Good judgment about building for one customer versus the platform, and the ability to push back on scope when it matters
• 8+ years of leadership experience in forward deployed, deployment, solutions or customer engineering. That might mean FDE leadership at Palantir or a similar company, a Field CTO role, or leading technical work with large enterprise customers
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers, and excitement about building a team from an early stage
• Experience at a Big 4 firm (Deloitte, PwC, EY, KPMG) or a major consulting firm such as Accenture, McKinsey, BCG or Bain

Preferred

• Knowledge of audit, accounting, risk or compliance
• Experience deploying LLM or agent-based systems in production

Pay

USD 240,000 - 390,000