Forward Deployed Engineer - Contract

NextData
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Workplace: OnsiteContractFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Project ownership","Judgment","Collaboration"]

Lead a focused three-to-four-month engagement with an early customer, turning high-value business needs into a production-ready solution on the Nextdata OS. Own use-case definition through implementation and deployment across data integration, modeling, pipelines, and infrastructure. Build a user-facing agentic application with LangChain/LangGraph-style workflows, tool calling, state management, approvals, and robust failure handling, plus APIs and MCP-compatible endpoints for governed enterprise data.

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NextData
NextData
1 month ago

Forward Deployed Engineer - Contract

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Job Summary

Lead a focused three-to-four-month engagement with an early customer, turning high-value business needs into a production-ready solution on the Nextdata OS. Own use-case definition through implementation and deployment across data integration, modeling, pipelines, and infrastructure. Build a user-facing agentic application with LangChain/LangGraph-style workflows, tool calling, state management, approvals, and robust failure handling, plus APIs and MCP-compatible endpoints for governed enterprise data.
Location: Anywhere
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Contract
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead a three-to-four-month customer project that converts a business need into a production-ready solution on the Nextdata OS.
  • •Own end-to-end delivery from use-case definition to implementation and deployment across data integration, modeling, pipelines, and infrastructure.
  • •Build a user-facing agentic application with multi-step workflows, tool calling, state management, human approval steps, and reliable failure handling.
  • •Develop APIs, semantic interfaces, and MCP-compatible endpoints for governed access to enterprise data.
  • •Apply analytics and AI lifecycle knowledge to connect business requirements, data pipelines, application development, and agentic workflows.

Key Requirements

  • •Strong experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, data platforms, or distributed systems.
  • •Experience working with enterprise customers to translate business needs into working technical solutions.
  • •Ability to own a project from use-case definition through implementation and production deployment.
  • •Strong Python and SQL skills, including building data pipelines, APIs, and backend services.
  • •Practical experience building user-facing agentic applications with LangChain, LangGraph, or similar frameworks.
Skills:Project ownershipJudgmentCollaboration
Tech Stack:PythonSQLLangChainLangGraphRAGSemantic searchMCPAPIs

Company Brief

NextData
Builds Nextdata OS, a data-mesh-native platform that creates, shares and manages autonomous data products to enable decentralized, AI-ready data for enterprise analytics and agents.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Early Stage Startup
Funding: Seed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2022
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