Forward-Deployed Engineer (FDE): AI Transformation

Build the AI systems that change how companies work.

Employment: Full-time

Annual compensation: ₹60 lakh per year (INR 60,00,000).

AI is expanding what a small team of exceptional engineers can accomplish. We're looking for someone who sees that possibility and wants to put it to work inside real businesses.

At Leading Bird Company, our mission is to lead AI transformation: rethink how companies operate, build intelligent systems around their hardest problems, and turn breakthroughs in AI into everyday business capabilities.

As our Forward-Deployed Engineer, you'll be at the centre of that mission. You'll work directly with customers, uncover opportunities worth pursuing, and lead the engineering that brings them to life. You'll combine the instincts of a founder, the judgment of a technical leader, and the craft of an engineer who loves to build.

Your mandate

Own the path from "Could AI do this?" to "This is how we work now."

That means understanding a business deeply enough to challenge its assumptions, moving quickly enough to demonstrate what's possible, and building rigorously enough to earn trust in production.

What you'll build and lead

• AI that does consequential work. Build agents and applications that reason over business context, use tools, connect systems, and execute complex workflows.
• Transformation from the inside. Work alongside business leaders and operational teams to uncover bottlenecks, redesign workflows, and deliver measurable improvements.
• The full journey to production. Own discovery, architecture, implementation, deployment, and iteration. Stay accountable for what happens after launch.
• Systems people can trust. Make thoughtful decisions about evaluations, reliability, security, human oversight, latency, and cost.
• A stronger product with every deployment. Turn customer discoveries into reusable capabilities and help shape the product roadmap.
• An exceptional engineering team. Set technical standards, mentor engineers, and help build the forward-deployed engineering function while remaining deeply hands-on.

You'll thrive here if

• You have built and shipped software that people depend on, and can explain the hard decisions behind it.
• You're already experimenting with AI models, agents, retrieval, tool use, and AI-assisted development. Your curiosity produces working software.
• You can move comfortably between a customer conversation, a system design, and a pull request.
• You have strong engineering fundamentals and can work across backend systems, APIs, data, integrations, and interfaces.
• You know how to make progress when the problem is unclear, the data is imperfect, and the answer isn't in a playbook.
• You can earn trust with senior stakeholders and the people using your software every day.
• You want responsibility for outcomes and the opportunity to lead others toward them.

Why this role matters

You'll work where emerging AI capabilities meet real operational complexity. The problems will stretch your engineering, product judgment, and leadership. You'll have direct influence over customer outcomes, our product, and how the team builds.

We care about your ability to learn, build, and lead. Show us something you shipped, a difficult problem you owned, or an ambitious idea you made real.

If you've been looking for a role where your curiosity about AI can become your biggest professional contribution, let's talk.