Emergent LabsForward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to build and deploy autonomous AI agents for enterprise customers.
Emergent builds autonomous coding agents that replace traditional software development by generating, testing, and deploying production applications directly from plain-language intent. Our systems run in production at global scale and are used to build millions of real applications.
Since our public launch, we've crossed $130M in Annualised Revenue and grown to over 10M users across 190+ countries, who have built 12M+ applications on Emergent. We're backed by Creaegis, Khosla Ventures, SoftBank, Lightspeed, Together, Y Combinator, Google, Claypond and Sentinel Global.
We're solving the hard part of AI-driven software creation: correctness, reliability, security, and scale in real production systems. The team is built by repeat founders, Olympiad medalists, IIT & IIM alumni, and leaders from Google, Amazon, and Dropbox.
The Role:
We're hiring a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) for the Wingman team, with a backend engineering background and experience building and deploying AI agents. Your key responsibility is developing and deploying numerous AI agents for the Wingman team, working closely with customers and turning real-world challenges into scalable solutions.
- Level: Senior (4+ years experience) — SDE2/SDE3/Senior SDE profile, startup background preferred
- Location: Bangalore (Work From Office, 5 days/week)
- Headcount: 3
- Target start: 30 October 2026
What You'll Do:
- Develop and deploy numerous AI agents for the Wingman team
- Work directly with customers to understand technical and business challenges and turn them into scalable solutions
- Own projects end-to-end, from requirements to deployment and iteration
- Debug complex issues across applications, integrations, APIs, and workflows
What We're Looking For:
- Strong backend engineering background
- Proven experience building and deploying AI agents in production
- Startup background strongly preferred
- Strong ownership mindset with the ability to work independently in ambiguous situations
Interview Process:
- 2 technical rounds
- 1 managerial round
- 1 consultant round
Benefits and Perks:
- Daily Meals: Lunch and Dinner provided
- Family Insurance: 5 Lakhs worth of coverage for you and your family
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- Flexible Working Hours
Let's build the future of software together.
How we rate this
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Emergent Labs rates 75 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Open the description and count.
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- How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
- Tell me about a project where backend engineering was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where deployment was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where python was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where system architecture was part of your work. What did you do?
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- List these exact terms on your resume: AI Agents, Backend Engineering, Deployment, Python, and System Architecture. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them — a tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project — this role expects it to be a running habit.
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