Manager, Forward Deployed Engineer
USD 111,300-215,100 / year
Posted on Oct 24, 2026
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KPMG is currently seeking a Manager, Forward Deployed Engineer to join our Clients, Technology & Innovation (CT&I) organization.
Responsibilities:
- Own end-to-end solution architecture and technical direction for the pod, establishing rigorous quality bars through golden evaluation sets, regression harnesses, and red-teaming prior to production release
- Write and ship clean, secure production code weekly alongside the team while hardening systems for enterprise-grade scalability, performance, and operational reliability
- Lead, mentor, and coach a high-velocity pod of AI-native full-stack engineers across the full lifecycle, from problem framing and MVP development to deployed workflow
- Drive agile delivery in two-to-six-week execution cycles, managing constraints, surfacing risks early, and contributing reusable frameworks and components to the shared engineering core
- Lead discovery, working sessions, and demonstrations with diverse audiences ranging from technical staff to C-suite executives (CIO, CISO, CFO), tying system performance directly to quantified business outcomes
- Partner closely with clients and business sponsors to drive continuous feedback loops, steer discovery pilots, and navigate successful transitions from initial deployment to long-term operational adoption
- Design and implement robust testing and deployment harnesses to manage, benchmark, and deploy hybrid model configurations (LLMs and Type 1 models) seamlessly into enterprise production environments
- Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment
Qualifications:
- Minimum seven years of recent, hands-on experience shipping secure, end-to-end production software with a focus on data, ML, and AI-native applications utilizing modern languages such as Python, Go, Rust, or Java
- Minimum three years of recent experience in a hands-on leadership capacity managing, coaching, and scaling high-performing engineering teams in rapid-growth, startup, or enterprise environments; founder or early-stage startup experience is a strong plus
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university in a STEM field or eight years equivalent practical experience
- Demonstrated expertise in architecting, hardening, and operating scalable systems in live enterprise cloud environments across Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud (GCP)
- Deep familiarity with modern agentic frameworks, coding harnesses (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor), tool integration standards (such as Model Context Protocol), prompt engineering, context management, and systematic model evaluation
- Exceptional customer-facing presence with the proven ability to articulate complex AI concepts to non-technical leaders, overcome skepticism, and build consensus across cross-functional leadership teams
- Verifiable portfolio or shipped codebase
- Ability to travel domestically as needed
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