Forward Deployed Engineer

We’re hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to sit at the intersection of engineering and go-to-market. You’ll work across our product suite as the technical bridge between customers and our engineering team. You’ll be deeply hands-on with the stack, credible in front of buyers, and the person who translates real customer needs into shipped solutions. This is a hybrid role for someone who is genuinely strong on both sides: technically capable across the full stack, and equally comfortable presenting to a room, joining a sales call, and translating customer needs into something we can ship.

You’ll be focused on:

• Serving as the primary technical liaison between the engineering and sales teams, owning the translation of customer requirements into engineering work and vice versa.
• Joining sales calls and customer meetings as the technical authority – running demos, scoping integrations, answering deep architecture questions about Targon, TVM, attestation and confidential compute.
• Scoping customer requirements and translating them into concrete technical solutions, integrations, and deployments on Targon.
• Building prototypes, integrations, and tooling that get customers to value quickly, from API integration with the Targon Cloud to standing up confidential workloads.
• Feed structured customer signal back to engineering and product, and work directly with the core team to deliver solutions, fixes, and roadmap input.
• Write and present technical content – integration guides, architecture walkthroughs, and post-call follow-ups that move deals forward.
• Owning the technical relationship post-sale – onboarding, troubleshooting, and ensuring customers succeed on the platform.

Ideal Experiences

• Strong full-stack engineering ability, comfortable reading and writing production code and reasoning about systems end to end.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the confidence to lead technical conversations with customers and join sales calls.

• Proficiency with TypeScript, and experience with Next.js, React, and tRPC (the core of our stack).
• Comfortable working with APIs, SDKs, and CLIs, and explaining them clearly to others.
• A bias toward ownership, you can take an ambiguous customer problem and drive it to a delivered solution.

Bonus Skills

• Experience with AI/ML inference, training, GPUs, or model deployment.
• Experience working on permissionless systems or building market-related products.
• Experience working in Golang.
• Exposure to confidential computing, TEEs, or secure infrastructure.
• Background in a forward-deployed, solutions engineering, sales engineering, or technical account role at an infrastructure company.

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive Compensation Structure
• 401K Matching
• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Fully covered Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Access to 24/7 Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects in a fast-paced startup environment