Forward Deployed Engineer

Customer & Solutions · Paris Office · FullTime · Mid level

A Forward Deployed Engineer typically works directly with customers to turn a product into working solutions, often writing code, running integrations and debugging in live settings. A strong candidate brings solid software engineering skills, comfort talking with technical customers, and the ability to scope a problem and ship a fix quickly. Here that means helping customers and partners connect a real time web search API into their AI applications and agents.

How it fits the AI era

AI makes much of the routine integration work faster, so the role leans more on judgment about what a customer actually needs and on getting systems working in messy real conditions. The human parts stay central: listening to a customer, choosing a sound design, and taking responsibility when something breaks in production. This kind of role sits close to where AI products meet real use.

How it builds AI experience

The role offers hands on exposure to grounding AI applications and agents with live web data, which is a practical skill in demand across AI product teams. Building that experience means working with APIs, retrieval and agent workflows, and learning how to test whether the information an AI system receives is current and reliable. Working alongside founders and partners adds a view of how AI tools get adopted in practice.

Worth showing

• API integration
• Agent and retrieval basics
• Clear technical communication

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About Linkup

Linkup provides a web search application programming interface purpose-engineered to ground AI applications and agents with real-time web knowledge.