JetBrains
Lead Forward Deployed Engineer (AI-Native Software Development )
We captured this posting once, on 2026-06-16, and did not track it afterwards — so we cannot tell you whether it is still open.
- Employer
- JetBrains
- Location
- United States
- Seniority
- Senior
- Experience asked for
- 10+ years
- Pay band
- $204K – $306K
When we saw it
- Posted 2026-06-04 — the date the employer published it
- Archived 2026-06-16 — when we saved this copy
Found via LinkedIn — US keyword pulls.
Skills the posting named
From the posting
At JetBrains, we build intelligent tools for developers and development teams. More than 15 million developers and over 300,000 companies worldwide rely on our products to solve real, complex problems. Our mission is simple: make development teams more productive and bring more joy to software development. Inside the Professional Services department, we are building a team of Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) to enable JetBrains consulting partners to transform their customers' software development lifecycles and to help our customers adopt AI-native development with JetBrains Central, our new platform for agent-driven software development. JetBrains Central Connects Tools, Agents, And Infrastructure So Enterprises Can Adopt Automated AI Workflows With Full Visibility Into Results, Costs, And Processing Speed. …
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