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Staff 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 Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to lead implementations of our AI platform directly with customers. This role is ideal for an experienced 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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 8+ years of software engineering or technical implementation experience, ideally in customer-facing contexts
  • Experienced 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
  • Demonstrated experience working with enterprise customers, particularly in content, marketing or digital operations
More about this role

Gradial is building the AI-native system of work for enterprise marketing. Our agents turn ideas into live campaigns by executing across the tools, teams, and workflows enterprises already use—from content authoring and campaign assembly to quality assurance and brand compliance. We give marketers and creatives more time to shape brands, understand customers, and create work that moves people.

We’re tackling some of the hardest problems in applied AI: building agent harnesses, sandboxed execution environments, and orchestration that enable agents to plan, act, and verify their work reliably at enterprise scale. We’re growing rapidly, winning Fortune 500 and enterprise customers including AWS, T-Mobile, and Prudential. Our $65 million Series C led by Insight Partners is accelerating that momentum.

Join us to help define how people and AI agents work together. We move with urgency, reason from first principles, and take ownership from idea to customer impact. You’ll shape the product, own consequential problems, and build systems that some of the world’s leading brands depend on every day.

We’re hiring a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to lead implementations of our AI platform...

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