Forward Deployed Engineer

Forward Deployed Engineer, Core42, Abu Dhabi - UAE About Us Core42, a leader in AI-powered cloud and digital infrastructure, is driving transformative technology solutions globally.

Leveraging advanced resources and partnerships, Core42 empowers clients to harness sovereign AI infrastructure, especially in sectors with stringent regulatory needs.

With a mission to redefine digital transformation, we combine sovereign capabilities with scalable, high-performance compute infrastructure, positioning Core42 at the forefront of AI innovation in the Middle East and beyond.

The opportunity As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you will be a hands-on, customer-embedded full-stack engineer responsible for turning complex and often ambiguous customer problems into secure, reliable and production-grade AI solutions.

You will work side by side with customer users and engineers, owning the technical lifecycle from discovery, architecture and rapid prototyping through frontend and backend development, data and AI integration, deployment, production operations, adoption and continuous improvement.

You will contribute directly in code and make practical engineering trade-offs across user experience, functionality, model quality, security, reliability, latency, cost and delivery pace.

You will also convert successful field patterns into reusable software, accelerators, reference architectures and product feedback that improve Core42 platforms and future customer deployments. This is an individual-contributor engineering role.

It is not a Technical Program Manager, Engineering Manager, presales, advisory-only or staff-augmentation position. The FDE owns and builds the technical solution while collaborating with program, product, data, security and customer teams. Your key responsibilities

• Customer-embedded engineering: Work directly with customer business, operational and engineering teams from discovery and onboarding through deployment, adoption and optimization. Build a deep understanding of workflows, users, data, systems, constraints and desired outcomes.

• Problem discovery and solution shaping: Translate open-ended business problems into measurable outcomes, technical hypotheses, architecture, delivery increments and a prioritized engineering backlog. Prototype quickly, validate with users and refine the solution through evidence.

• End-to-end ownership: Own technical delivery from the first working prototype to stable production, including integration, testing, release, observability, troubleshooting, stabilization, documentation and handover.

• Frontend engineering: Build responsive, accessible and maintainable user-facing applications using React, TypeScript and modern web-development patterns, or comparable frontend technologies. Create interfaces for AI-assisted workflows, conversational experiences, operational tools and human-in-the-loop decisions.

• Backend engineering: Design and build secure backend services, APIs and asynchronous workflows using Python and Node.js/TypeScript, or comparable production stacks. Implement business logic, orchestration, authentication, authorization, caching, queues and integrations.

• Data and integration engineering: Connect customer and third-party systems through well-designed APIs, connectors and event-driven patterns. Work with relational and non-relational data stores, data pipelines, enterprise identity and access controls, and structured and unstructured data.

• AI and agentic applications: Build and operate LLM and generative-AI applications using patterns such as retrieval-augmented generation, tool use, multi-step agentic workflows, prompt and context engineering, evaluation, guardrails and human-in-the-loop controls.

• Production engineering: Apply software-engineering discipline through code reviews, automated testing, version control, CI/CD, infrastructure and configuration automation, observability, logging, monitoring, alerting, runbooks and incident learning.

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