# Forward Deployed Engineer (Implementation Engineering) at Harness

- Company: Harness
- What the company does: Backed by Battery, Norwest and GV.
- Company website: https://harness.io/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States; New York, New York, United States; San Francisco, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-25
- Apply by: 2026-11-09
- Apply: https://www.harness.io/company/jobs/apply?gh_jid=5249738007&gh_jid=5249738007
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/harness-forward-deployed-engineer-implementation-engineering/

## 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

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