Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE Lead)

Job overview

The Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE Lead) is an onsite, full-time position in Pittsburgh, PA; compensation is not specified. Syncreon Consulting provides recruitment and staffing services to clients across industries. The role calls for senior software engineering and technical leadership to build backend services, APIs, and scalable production systems. It contributes to large-scale delivery initiatives by working across architecture, data, and platform layers and applying modern AI application patterns such as retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, and agent-based systems.

What you'll do

• Build backend services, APIs, and scalable production systems
• operate across architecture, data, and platform layers
• apply modern AI application patterns including retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, and agent-based systems
• provide technical leadership and own production systems and large-scale delivery initiatives.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior forward deployed engineer

fde lead

software engineering

technical leadership

backend services

apis

production systems

ai applications

rag

semantic search

pittsburgh pa

syncreon consulting

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Requires a bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience, and 14+ years of software engineering and technical leadership experience. Advanced degree preferred; regulated-industry experience is a plus.

About the employer

Syncreon Consulting is hiring for this role. Industry: Employment Placement Agencies. Sector: 56.