Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

About Us

Eliza is a technology services company and Advanced-tier OpenAI partner that’s dedicated to helping organizations build and deploy cutting-edge AI solutions. From generative AI and custom LLM integrations to predictive analytics and intelligent automation, we work across industries to bring real-world AI applications to life. Our projects combine deep technical expertise with hands-on client collaboration to solve high-impact problems.

Role Overview

The Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Senior FDE) executes the core technical work on our hardest client problems. This is a senior individual contributor role with real depth: you take ambiguous, high-stakes work from problem definition through shipped outcome, own the architecture and the tradeoffs, and set the technical standard clients experience.

Senior FDEs go deep on a major engagement or workstream rather than broad across a portfolio. You are the person we send when the problem is genuinely difficult, the requirements are unclear, and the client needs someone who can hold the technical line while still shipping. You will review critical work before it reaches clients and lift the engineers around you through