Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

A Forward Deployed Engineer is the
sharp end of Innover's delivery. You embed directly with an enterprise client,
sit close to their product and technology leadership, and turn ambiguous
business problems into working, production-grade software fast. You own
outcomes rather than tickets: architecture through build, test, deployment, and
production support.

What sets this role apart is how
you build. Our FDEs are fluent, daily practitioners of AI-native engineering —
using agentic coding tools and disciplined guardrails to compress delivery
timelines without sacrificing quality. You are the forward point that connects
the client to Innover's broader delivery pods, translating in both directions
so the right thing gets built and shipped.

What you'll do

• **Embed

with the client. **Work
alongside the client's engineering, product, and executive teams; understand
their domain, their systems, and their constraints; and become a trusted
technical partner.

• **Own

the full lifecycle. **Take
features from architecture and design through implementation, testing,
deployment, and production support — shipping into the client's environment.

• **Build

AI-native. **Use
Claude Code, Cursor, and agentic workflows as core tools in daily development;
design the conventions and guardrails that keep an AI-augmented codebase fast,
maintainable, and safe.

• **Translate

business into software. **Convert
business requirements into technical solutions, scope and de-risk delivery
under ambiguity, and communicate progress, risk, and tradeoffs to non-technical
and executive stakeholders.

• **Set

the standard. **Define
architecture patterns and code-quality standards on the engagement, review
designs, and mentor engineers — including Innover's delivery pods that support
the account.

• **Bridge

to delivery. **Connect
the client to the wider Innover team, decomposing work into clear, reusable,
API-driven modules that pods can build against.

What you'll

bringEngineering foundation**

• 12+