Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
This role can be based remotely in United States
- Deploy, configure, and customize BMC’s agentic AI in customer environments (on-prem, hyperscaler, or OpenShift), ensuring value from Day 1.
- Take ownership of features and integrations end-to-end, even when requirements are incomplete or evolving.
- Build integrations with customer systems and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Support proofs-of-concept and pilots end-to-end; resolve technical and business blockers; keep stakeholders informed.
- Work directly with customers across regions/time zones, with travel as required.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor on agentic-AI adoption with human-in-the-loop, governed approaches.
- Bring field learnings back to product and engineering based on real usage.
- Contribute pragmatic engineering standards — CI/CD, automated testing, and DevOps practices.
- Lead technically ambiguous customer engagements where success criteria evolve.
- Make tradeoffs among customization, product fit, security/governance, and time-to-value.
- Mentor peers on customer engineering practices and communication.
- Influence product/engineering priorities with structured field evidence.
- Typically, 5–9 years of relevant experience
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- Python and software-engineering fundamentals; LLM/RAG/agents/prompt engineering literacy (depth scales with level).
- Enterprise systems/API integration; cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Containers/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift) and CI/CD as level requires.
- Excellent verbal and written communication; customer comfort scales with level.
- Rapid prototyping and ownership; willingness to travel as needed.
- End-to-end customer delivery ownership for AI or complex enterprise software.
- Operates with incomplete requirements and still drives outcomes.
- Executive-ready communication without losing technical accuracy.
- Customer, on-prem, or air-gapped deployments.
- Presales, solutions-engineering, or professional-services experience.
- Domain exposure relevant to the hiring team; Agile/Atlassian.
Our commitment to you!
BMC’s culture is built around its people. We have 6000+ brilliant minds working together across the globe. You won’t be known just by your employee number, but for your true authentic self. BMC lets you be YOU!
If after reading the above, You’re unsure if you meet the qualifications of this role but are deeply excited about BMC and this team, we still encourage you to apply! We want to attract talents from diverse backgrounds and experience to ensure we face the world together with the best ideas!
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The annual base salary range represents the low and high end of the BMC salary range for this position. Actual salaries depend on a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training, licensure, and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.
The range listed is just one component of BMC's employee compensation package. Other rewards may include a variable plan and country specific benefits.
At BMC, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at /near the top of the range. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $132,975 - $221,625