Forward Deployed Engineer
Forward Deployed Engineer at Linkup (Paris): joins the founding FDE team to design, prototype, and deploy integrations of Linkup's AI-ready search APIs into customers' agentic systems, supporting pre-sales demos and feeding field learnings into product, marketing, and GTM. Core skills: REST/JSON API integration, debugging, distributed systems and retrieval pipelines.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Paris Office
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Category
- Solutions engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 2+ years in technical support engineering, software engineering, or solutions engineering, with direct application development experience
- Strong API integration skills: design and debug REST/JSON payloads, manage auth flows, optimize latency
- Understand web infrastructure, distributed systems, or retrieval pipelines
- Comfortable debugging integrations and solving ambiguous technical challenges in customer environments
- Communicate clearly and empathetically with both technical and business audiences
- Curious about AI infrastructure, retrieval, and the emerging agentic ecosystem
- Thrive in a fast-paced, high-ownership startup environment
Full description
About the Role
We’re looking for a top-tier Forward Deployed Engineer to join Linkup and work hand-in-hand with our founders, customers, and partners. You'll be part of the founding FDE team at Linkup
Your mission: help leading AI companies, developers, and enterprises integrate Linkup’s AI-ready search APIs into their products - and shape how the next generation of AI agents connects to the web.
This is a highly cross-functional role. You’ll operate at the intersection of engineering, GTM, and customer success, turning technical integrations into insights that drive our product roadmap, marketing narratives, and outbound strategy.
You’ll be the connective bridge between what customers build with Linkup and how we tell that story to the world.
What You’ll Do
- Work directly with customers and partners to design, prototype, and deploy integrations of Linkup’s APIs into real-world agentic systems.
- Participate in pre-sales efforts - technical discovery, proof-of-concept design, demo environments.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with backend, ML, and product teams to ensure performance and reliability at scale.
- Partner with the GTM Engineer and DevRel team to turn customer learnings into automation, tutorials, and playbooks.
- Identify and implement technical integrations with our other partners in the value chain (workflow orchestration, AI frameworks, etc.)
- Translate complex technical concepts into clear explanations for both developers and business audiences.
Why This Role Matters
Every integration you build helps define how AI systems connect to live, trusted information.
You’ll operate on the frontier between customers and product - bringing the voice of the field into everything we build and say.
Your work will inform:
- The stories we tell in marketing.
- The use cases we automate in our GTM systems.
- The features we prioritize in our roadmap.
If you love blending engineering with impact - building things users actually depend on: this role is for you.
You’re a Great Fit If You
- 2+ years in technical support engineering, software engineering, or solutions engineering, with direct application development experience.