Remote Position
[Remote] Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Nimble Gravity is hiring a Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering to lead and coach a distributed team building AI systems for clients. The role owns delivery across client engagements, contributes hands-on technical leadership, and develops new opportunities and repeatable practices.
Responsibilities
- Lead a distributed team: Hire, coach, and grow forward deployed engineers across the USA and LATAM. Build a culture of trust, clear communication, and shared standards across time zones
- Own delivery: Be accountable for scope, quality, timelines, and outcomes across multiple concurrent client engagements
- Be the technical voice with clients: Run demos, architecture sessions, and delivery workshops that show clients what Claude Code and Claude Cowork can do in their environment
- Build alongside the team: Stay close to the code. Prototype, review designs, and unblock the team on agentic workflows, tool use, MCP integrations, and evaluation
- Find the next phase: Spot expansion opportunities in the work and partner with account leadership to shape and scope them
- Establish repeatable practices: Build reusable patterns, accelerators, and playbooks that the whole team can use, wherever they sit
- Collaborate across the business: Work with data, cloud, and digital engineering teams to deliver end-to-end outcomes
Skills
- 7+ years in software engineering, with 2+ years leading engineers or technical teams, ideally distributed ones
- Experience in client-facing delivery: consulting, solutions engineering, or forward deployed work
- Hands-on experience building with LLMs and agentic patterns, including tool use, RAG, workflow orchestration, and evaluation
- Strong Python or TypeScript skills, plus solid API design, CI/CD, and cloud fundamentals (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
- Excellent written and spoken English, and the ability to explain complex technical ideas clearly to executives and engineers alike
- A track record of taking ambiguous problems to production
- Ownership: You take responsibility for outcomes, not just tasks
- Curiosity and courage: You ask the real questions and challenge assumptions, politely but firmly
- Coaching mindset: You grow people and share credit
- Async-first communication: You keep a distributed team moving with clear documentation and decisions
- Adaptability: You're comfortable when the tools change monthly
- Hands-on experience with Claude Code, Claude Cowork, the Anthropic API, or the Model Context Protocol
- Experience with AI governance, security, and responsible-use practices in enterprise settings
- Fluency in Spanish or Portuguese
- Background in data science or formal engineering training
- Experience in a consulting or professional services environment
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