Senior AI-Native Forward Deployed Engineer

Astra

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US

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Key Responsibilities:

  • Embed with enterprise customer teams as a hands-on senior engineer and trusted technical advisor to build AI-native applications and agentic workflows.
  • Consult on AI-native adoption strategy, including tooling selection, rollout sequencing, and setting standards for safe AI-assisted development.
  • Move the whole product engineering organization to AI-native ways of working by assessing gaps, mentoring champions, and measuring adoption.

What Success Looks Like in Year One:

  • First 90 days: adoption assessment complete, roadmap agreed, first production AI-native workload shipped.
  • Six months: every product engineering team working to AI-native baseline; standards and golden paths in use.
  • Twelve months: measurable delivery improvement and internal champions sustaining the practice.

Required Qualifications:

  • 8+ years shipping production software with recent hands-on delivery and daily use of AI coding agents.
  • Practical experience with LLM patterns, strong proficiency in Python or TypeScript, and production cloud experience.
  • Consulting-grade communication and a track record of advising and influencing engineering teams.

Astra

Astra provides an AI-native development platform and consulting services to help enterprises adopt AI-native software engineering. The company culture values AI-first, customer obsession, and continuous learning, with a focus on transforming engineering organizations.

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