Backed by Battery, Norwest and GV.
About the role
Forward Deployed Engineers work embedded inside enterprise engineering teams to design and build AI-native automation on the Harness platform. This is a hands-on, code-first role. You will write production code and scripts, build production pipelines, and connect Harness AI Agents into a customer's existing systems, staying engaged until the capability is live in production. You will work directly alongside customer engineers, turning business objectives into working software rather than documentation or advice.
What they're looking for
- Experience building integrations against APIs, event-driven systems, or LLM and agent orchestration frameworks
- Prior experience in a forward-deployed, solutions engineering, architecture, or embedded consulting capacity where success was measured by working software, not documentation or advisory output
- Comfortable operating with ambiguity: able to work from a business objective and an agent's capability boundary to a working integration without a pre-written specification
- Excellent stakeholder communication, able to work day to day with customer engineers while keeping internal stakeholders aligned on progress
- Willingness to travel to customer sites for the duration of an active build
More about this role
Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform company, led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal (founder of AppDynamics, acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). Harness has raised approximately $570M in funding and is valued at $5.5B, backed by leading investors including Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, Citi Ventures, and more. As AI accelerates code creation, the real bottleneck has shifted to everything after the code – testing, deployments, application security, reliability, compliance, and cost optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this “outer loop,” helping teams ship software faster while maintaining security and governance throughout the entire software delivery lifecycle.
Powered by Harness AI and the Software Delivery Knowledge Graph, the Harness Platform applies deep context and intelligent automation across the software delivery lifecycle with governance and policy-driven controls embedded throughout the platform.
Over the past year, Harness powered over 185M deployments, 82M builds, 18T flag evaluations, 8M security scans, 9.1B optimized tests, 3T protected API calls, and helped manage $2.8B in cloud spend — enabling customers like...
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