# Forward Deployed Engineer at Nexus Cognitive

- Company: Nexus Cognitive
- What the company does: The composable, out-of-the-box data architecture that gives organizations complete freedom to build, adapt, and scale any data workload — from legacy databases to real-time AI pipelines — without vendor lock-in. Backed by Insight.
- Company website: https://www.nexuscognitive.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Atlanta / Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-09-23
- Apply by: 2026-11-07
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nexus-cognitive/8e4e2aca-2e8d-4f55-8adb-bffd7d79a84d
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/nexus-cognitive-forward-deployed-engineer/

## About the role

We are looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to embed with strategic enterprise customers after the sale and turn ambitious platform commitments into production outcomes.

## What they're looking for

- 6+ years of professional software, platform, data, or infrastructure engineering experience, including substantial hands-on ownership of production systems
- Experience in a customer-facing post-sales, professional services, solutions delivery, consulting engineering, resident engineering, or forward-deployed role—or equivalent experience working directly with enterprise users
- Strong programming and software engineering fundamentals, with production proficiency in at least one backend language such as Python, Java, Scala, or Go
- Experience with modern data infrastructure and distributed systems, such as Spark, Trino/Presto, Iceberg, Kafka, Airflow, dbt, data lakes, or cloud data platforms
- Strong Kubernetes and container experience, including deployment, troubleshooting, configuration, networking, observability, and operational readiness
- Working knowledge of at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and infrastructure-as-code practices such as Terraform

Tags: Product Engineering