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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer – West

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USD 220k–240k / yr
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Full Time
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Director
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AI Summary

The role, at a glance.

Tines is seeking a senior Forward Deployed Engineer to implement its workflow and AI automation platform within strategic enterprise customer environments. The role combines hands-on systems integration, production troubleshooting, LLM and agent-workflow deployment, stakeholder training, and technical account ownership. This founding team member will drive adoption, uncover new use cases, communicate field insights to product teams, and build relationships from technical users through executive sponsors. The position is remote for candidates working in MST or PST, requires U.S. work authorization, and includes 20–40% travel to customer sites.

Role DNA

A quick view of the complexity, pace, ownership and collaboration implied by the job description.

Job Complexity

5/5
EasyHard

Pace & Pressure

5/5
RelaxedFast-paced

Autonomy Level

5/5
GuidedFull ownership

Communication Load

5/5
IndependentCollaborative
AI insightThis is a senior, customer-embedded technical role requiring independent delivery across ambiguous enterprise environments. Success depends on both deep engineering capability and the ability to influence technical and executive stakeholders while traveling regularly.

Salary analysis

Estimated compensation compared with the broader US market for similar roles.

Estimated job median (per year)Highly competitive
$230,000
US market range (per year)$200k–$260k
AI insightThe employer discloses target annual compensation of $220,000–$240,000 USD OTE, with a 90/10 pay split. The midpoint is $230,000 per year. Estimated U.S. market compensation for a senior, customer-facing forward deployed engineering role with enterprise AI and integration responsibilities is approximately $200,000–$260,000 annually; this is an AI estimate, not verified salary research.

Core skills

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Sample interview questions
Describe a complex enterprise deployment you led from discovery through production adoption.

I would explain the customer’s objectives, technical constraints, integration architecture, rollout plan, and adoption measures. I would also quantify outcomes such as reduced manual work, faster incident resolution, increased active users, or expansion into additional business units.

How would you identify and prioritize new Tines use cases after an initial implementation?

I would combine workflow observation, stakeholder interviews, operational metrics, and platform telemetry to identify repetitive, high-impact, or error-prone processes. I would prioritize opportunities by customer value, feasibility, security requirements, implementation effort, and their potential to broaden adoption.

How have you used Python and APIs to troubleshoot or deliver an integration in a customer environment?

I would describe validating authentication, inspecting request and response payloads, reproducing failures with a small Python script, and using logs to isolate the root cause. I would then document the fix, add error handling and monitoring, and communicate the resolution in terms appropriate for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What practices would you use to deploy LLM or agent workflows safely in an enterprise setting?

I would begin with a narrow, measurable use case and define controls for data access, prompt inputs, tool permissions, human review, logging, and evaluation. I would test failure modes, monitor output quality and cost, and expand deployment only after the workflow meets agreed reliability and security criteria.

How do you build credibility with both hands-on users and executive sponsors?

I build trust with practitioners by being technically prepared, responsive, and transparent about trade-offs. With leaders, I connect delivery milestones to business outcomes, adoption metrics, risks, and a clear roadmap for additional value.

This analysis is generated from the job description. Salary estimates, role characteristics and sample answers are guidance, not employer-provided facts.
Opportunity details

About this role.

Tines is the intelligent workflow company that powers some of the world’s most important workflows.

Tines has been supporting IT and security teams from a diverse range of customers, including Canva, Reddit, SAP, Coinbase, Mars, Fin (Intercom), and McKesson.

Tines 3B, launched in 2026, is the next generation of Tines – a single, secure environment for every team’s apps, agents and automations.

As an integrator across the entire tech stack, Tines is vendor-agnostic integrating with any API-enabled service. This flexibility enables our customers to achieve their highest-priority goals faster. Tines has security woven into its DNA, and our platform is secure and private by design.

At Tines, we’re driven by our values of Simplicity, Speed, and Soundness. We’re committed to delivering exceptional customer experiences while fostering a company culture that nurtures individual curiosity, growth, and integrity. We’re excited about what’s next, and we’re looking for others to join us on our journey.

This is a remote role that must be based in MST or PST.

About the Role

You’ll join as a founding member of Tines’ forward deployed team, embedded directly with our most strategic enterprise customers to drive transformational AI adoption. Your job is to realize maximum potential for Tines’ customers and to ensure every stakeholder from end user to customer leadership understands and fully realizes the value of Tines.

You own the full arc of a customer’s success: from deepening adoption and enabling stakeholders through to discovering new opportunities where the platform can create measurable business impact. You’ll show customers the art of what’s possible and ensuring the value delivered today is only the beginning. You’ll be the person customers trust most to make the Tines’ platform work for them in practice.

We expect our FDEs to operate autonomously, thrive in ambiguity and represent us at the highest level inside customer environments. You’ll be as comfortable deep in a customer’s technical environment as you are leading a training session with a non-technical team or presenting a business case to a CTO.

What you will be doing:

  • Own end-to-end deployment: Lead the technical implementation of Tines’ platform within complex enterprise environments. Integrating with existing systems, configuring for customer-specific workflows and ensuring a fast, smooth path to deliverable outcomes.
  • Drive adoption across the organisation: Proactively support and train users and stakeholders in the customer at every level from hands-on technical teams to business leaders ensuring the platform is understood actively used and maximized.
  • Identify and develop new use cases: Through deep familiarity with each customer’s business, continuously surface new opportunities where Tines’ platform can create additional value expanding adoption across teams, workflows, and business units.
  • Be the primary technical point of contact: Serve as the customer’s trusted advisor on all things platform-related. Troubleshooting issues, delivering workshops, answering technical questions and resolving blockers before they become problems.
  • Maintain strong customer relationships: Build lasting partnerships at every level of the organisation, from daily users to executive sponsors with a focus on long-term retention and growth.
  • Feed insights back to the product: Codify what you learn in the field. Surfacing recurring friction points, unmet needs and high-value use cases and sharing these with Tines’ internal teams such as Engineering, Product and GTM.
  • Travel 20–40% to customer sites to build trust, accelerate adoption and deepen relationships in person.

What you Bring with you:

  • 8+ years in a technical, customer-facing role: Solutions / Pre-sales Engineer, Technical Consultant, Customer Success Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Integration / Implementation Engineer or Software Engineer with customer exposure
  • Proven track record of driving adoption and delivering measurable value from complex technical products inside enterprise environments
  • Strong engineering skills to own integrations, troubleshoot production issues and understand customer infrastructure
  • Strong Python skills (plus ideally TypeScript, Java, or similar)
  • Production experience with LLMs and AI systems: prompt engineering, agent workflows, and deployment at scale
  • Ability to train, enable and influence stakeholders across all levels
  • High agency and resourcefulness: you find a path forward independently, escalate only when necessary, and take full ownership of your accounts
  • Strong communication skills: clear, confident, and low-ego: you make complex things feel simple
  • Willingness to travel 20–40% to customer sites

Target Annual Compensation: $220-240K OTE (90/10 split)

Applicants for this opportunity must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

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At Tines, we’re all about trying new things and taking the leap. If you’re second-guessing your application, we hope you’ll trust your gut and take the leap too! Applying for a new job isn’t always easy, especially if you’re thinking of a career pivot – but we’re big believers in learning and growth here at Tines, so you’ve nothing to worry about. A variety of experience, perspectives, and voices makes us the company we are. We’d love to hear from you.

Tines provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, colour, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age or sexual orientation.

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