Talkdesk
Director, Forward Deployed Engineer
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
- Talkdesk
- Location
- Seattle, WA
- Seniority
- Leadership
- Experience asked for
- 9+ years
- Pay band
- $260K – $409K
When we saw it
- Posted 2026-06-03 — 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
Job Summary The Director of Forward Deployed Engineering is the executive leader responsible for building and scaling the platform that accelerates Customer Experience Automation (CXA) and Agentic AI deployments across Talkdesk's largest enterprise customers. Rather than solving each customer engagement from scratch, you will lead a high-caliber team of engineers who create the reusable libraries, evaluation systems, and safe deployment infrastructure that make every subsequent implementation faster, more accurate, and increasingly differentiated. This role requires a unique blend of strategic organizational leadership, deep technical expertise in AI/ML, and a platform-engineering mindset. Your work will feed critical field insights back to the core Product and Engineering teams and directly influence the long-term platform roadmap. …
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