About the Team:
ServiceNow鈥檚 Applied AI Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team is where bold ideas meet transformative action. We partner with our most strategic customers to shape the future of enterprise AI. Together, we identify high-value opportunities, accelerate business outcomes, and build reusable AI-native solutions that advance the Now AI Platform.
Our mission: We partner deeply with our customers to build intelligent, scalable AI solutions that solve their most mission-critical challenges. By embedding in real-world complexity, we deliver fast, iterate with purpose, and transform every success into reusable patterns that accelerate transformation across the Now Platform and the broader enterprise.
Why This Role Matters:
Enterprises are raising the bar. AI initiatives must deliver business value鈥攏ot just promise potential. That means taking cutting-edge LLM capabilities and turning them into resilient, secure, and scalable software.
As a Forward Deployed Software Engineer (FDSE), you act as the CTO of the build鈥攐wning everything from backend services to LLM pipelines and front-end integrations. You partner with customers in the field to design, implement, and deliver solution-ready builds in agile sprints. Your software becomes the reference implementation for scalable GenAI in the enterprise. You codify patterns, shape internal tooling, and accelerate innovation鈥攄elivering systems that are battle-tested in production and scalable across industries.
Who You Are
You are a systems-minded, AI-native engineer who ships real software. You own the full stack鈥攁nd are equally motivated by elegant APIs, intuitive UIs, and scalable orchestration pipelines. You think like a product-minded CTO, balancing creativity with pragmatism to deliver impact.
You embed deeply with customer teams, diagnose root problems, and architect AI-powered workflows that run at scale. You don鈥檛 just debug code鈥攜ou debug systems, context, and customer pain points.
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