Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

🕒 September 17

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $124.6k - $168.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Alation

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501 - 1000 employees

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

SaaS • Enterprise • Artificial Intelligence

Alation is an enterprise software company that provides a SaaS-based data intelligence platform focused on metadata, data cataloging, governance, lineage, and data-product management. Its platform combines active metadata, 120+ connectors, and AI-powered agents to automate documentation, enforce policies (access, masking, approvals), enable natural-language search and “chat with your data,” and deliver trusted, explainable answers for analytics and AI initiatives. Alation targets large organizations seeking to centralize discovery, governance, and quality so business teams can self-serve data while maintaining compliance and auditability.

📋 Description

• Design and prototype AI agent systems and agentic workflows that automate data governance processes and complex reasoning tasks within Alation's platform • Engage directly with enterprise stakeholders to understand data ecosystems and governance challenges • Translate requirements into technical roadmaps tied to Alation's Knowledge Layer capabilities • Build BI and ML pipelines that convert cataloged data into actionable insights and demonstrate ROI • Partner with Deployment Strategists to connect technical work to business outcomes and deliver against customer value metrics • Contribute to repeatable solution patterns, accelerators, reusable components, and internal tooling • Feed customer patterns, edge cases, and AI use cases back to Product and Engineering • Support competitive analysis and surface customer-environment observations to GTM and Product teams • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior field engineers and customer technical teams on Alation architecture and AI best practices • Collaborate cross-functionally across field, Product, and GTM teams as an individual contributor

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years in software engineering, with meaningful experience in customer-facing technical roles such as Solutions Engineer, FDE, or similar • Hands-on experience with LLM frameworks and AI tooling, including orchestration patterns, vector databases, and RAG architectures • Experience delivering BI and data pipeline solutions • Strong SQL skills • Familiarity with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, GCP, or Azure • Solid understanding of enterprise data governance, metadata management, and distributed systems architecture • Ability to move quickly from ambiguous requirements to working prototypes and iterate based on customer feedback • Strong communication skills with technical and business stakeholders • Enthusiasm for Alation's mission and commitment to helping customers maximize data investment value