Forward Deployed Engineer

Sixfold

Senior Engineer at Sixfold building AI agents for underwriting workflows and integrating them into customer ecosystems. Leading technical relationships and shaping the FDE function as the first dedicated role.

Posted 7/2/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $155,000 - $200,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the technical relationship with a portfolio of customers: joint architecture sessions, integration design, production debugging, and more
Plug our product into each customer's ecosystem: third-party data integrations, product customizations, and the deep integration work that embeds Sixfold in their underwriting stack
Ship the work yourself, leveraging agentic engineering best practices
Surface trends and patterns from customer work and partner with product engineering to land them in the roadmap
Translate fluently between audiences: from "what does this mean for our renewal" with a Customer Success Manager, to "what's the right primitive here" with a product engineer, in the same afternoon
Travel to customer sites in the US when the work calls for it
Help shape the FDE function itself: the operating model, the hiring bar, the success measures

Requirements

What you’ll need

Senior level engineer with significant production experience shipping non-trivial systems end-to-end
Agentic coding is your default workflow
Strong project management instincts
Clear, consistent communicator
You switch altitudes cleanly
You're comfortable being early
Deep empathy for the user
Bias toward leverage over heroics
Insurance, insurtech, or enterprise B2B background is a plus

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive benefits
401(k) with employer match
Parental leave
Unlimited PTO
Your birthday off

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Hard Skills & Tools

End-to-End System DevelopmentIntegration DesignProduction DebuggingData IntegrationProduct Customization

Soft Skills

Empathy for the UserConsistent CommunicationAdaptability