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Forward Deployed Engineer

Gradial · Seattle, WA · On-site

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About Gradial

Gradial helps enterprise marketing teams execute campaigns faster with AI agents that author, optimize, tag, and QA work across AEM, Salesforce, Jira, and more. Backed by Insight and Madrona.

About the role

We’re hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to lead implementations of our AI platform directly with customers. This role is ideal for a technically fluent builder who thrives at the intersection of engineering and problem solving; someone who wants to be hands-on with code while shaping how some of the world’s most recognizable brands modernize their content operations.

What they're looking for

  • 1+ years of software engineering or technical implementation experience, ideally in customer-facing contexts
  • Proficiency in programming languages such as TypeScript or similar, with a strong understanding of APIs and systems integration
  • Ability to rapidly understand unfamiliar enterprise software architectures (CMS, DAM, workflow tools) and build integration paths
  • Excellent communication skills. Confident translating for both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • High ownership mindset with comfort operating independently, navigating ambiguity
  • Willingness to travel occasionally (
More about this role

Gradial is the marketing operations system of work that helps marketers and creatives move from idea to execution faster. Our platform orchestrates across martech stacks, workflows, and people to automate marketing execution, cutting execution time, so marketers focus on the work only humans can do: shaping brands, understanding customers, and creating the work that moves people.

Backed by leading investors, we’re building software that adapts to the user, not the other way around. We move with urgency, operate with ownership, and solve hard problems from first principles. If you want to do ambitious work, take real responsibility, and help define the future of AI-native content operations, you’ll do your best work here.

We’re hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to lead implementations of our AI platform directly with customers. This role is ideal for a technically fluent builder who thrives at the intersection of engineering and problem solving; someone who wants to be hands-on with code while shaping how some of the world’s most recognizable brands modernize their content operations.

As an FDE, you’ll own full-stack development for enterprise deployments, working side-by-side...

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Forward Deployed Engineering

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