At Vendasta, we're leading the AI revolution from right here in Chennai —and beyond. We work together to empower our partners and customers through our AI-powered customer acquisition and engagement platform to help them get more customers—and keep them.

Note: This position will require travel to customer locations.

About the Job
The Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) works directly with engineers inside our enterprise customers' organizations to help them succeed with the Vendasta platform, and to uncover what they need next.
You'll be the technical bridge between our customers and our product team — spending real time on-site, understanding how customers actually use the platform, and turning what you learn into input for the product roadmap.

Your Impact
As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, you will:
Work embedded with a customer's engineering team to help them implement and get value from the Vendasta platform
Identify gaps, friction points, and recent opportunities through hands-on discovery
Translate what you learn on-site into explicit,



actionable input for R&D;'s product roadmap and sprint planning
Navigate difficult customer conversations with confidence
Travel to customer sites regularly to maintain a real, working relationship
Solve unfamiliar technical problems on the fly, using whatever stack and tools the customer already has in place

What You Bring to the Table
5-8 years experience in software engineering, solution architecture or forward deployed engineering
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science or a related technical field.
Advanced full-stack development skills, and strong system design capabilities
Strong, on-the-spot problem-solving ability reasoning through it live, without a playbook
Confidence and professionalism in front of customers
Clear written and spoken communication
Prior on-site or embedded customer implementation experience
A background in consulting, solutions architecture, or independent contracting, e

📌 Forward Deployed Engineer (India)
🏢 Vendasta
📍 India