
Director Forward Deployed Engineer
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KPMG is seeking a Director, Forward Deployed Engineer for its Clients, Technology & Innovation organization. The role combines hands-on production engineering with technical leadership: setting standards, solving complex production challenges, building reusable assets, and architecting data pipelines across AI and deterministic models. It also involves executive collaboration, mentoring engineering leaders, and scaling delivery across teams.
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Full job description
JOB REQUIREMENTS: Known for being a great place to work and build a career, KPMG provides audit, tax and advisory services for organizations in today's most important industries. Our growth is driven by delivering real results for our clients. It's also enabled by our culture, which encourages individual development, embraces an inclusive environment, rewards innovative excellence and supports our communities. With qualities like those, it's no wonder we're consistently ranked among the best companies to work for by Fortune Magazine, Consulting Magazine, Seramount, Fair360 and others. If you're as passionate about your future as we are, join our team. KPMG is currently seeking a Director, Forward Deployed Engineer to join our Clients, Technology & Innovation (CT&I) organization.Responsibilities: Partner with leadership to define technical standards and scale engineering delivery across EdgeCos, account teams, and industry teams Write and ship production-ready code daily while taking direct ownership of the most complex, high-priority production challenges Expand the library of reusable assets, tools, and accelerators, championing modern developer tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Lovable where permitted Champion rigorous enterprise production standards, including context engineering, golden sets, evaluation frameworks, regression harnesses, and secure, auditable code Direct executive working sessions with key leaders (CIOs, CISOs, CFOs) and engineers, building trust through transparent risk and progress communication Mentor Managers, Senior Associates, and pod leads, directly coaching team members while actively building to scale overall talent density and quality Architect production pipelines that route data dynamically between stochastic Large Language Models (LLMs) for generative tasks and Type 1 models (e.g., Jev) for low-latency, deterministic, rules-based operations Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environmentQualifications: Minimum ten years of recent, hands-on experience building, hardening, and operating secure, end-to-end production data, ML, and AI-native applications across Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud (GCP). Minimum five years of experience leading and... For full info follow application link. KPMG is an equal opportunity employer. KPMG complies with all applicable federal, state and local laws regarding recruitment and hiring. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. The attached link "https://assets.kpmg.com/content/dam/kpmg/us/pdf/2018/09/eeo.pdf? "contains further information regarding the firm's compliance with federal, state and local recruitment and hiring laws. No phone calls or agencies please. ***** APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: Apply Online: ipc.us/t/77B40884167147A7
How this job compares
Set against the 2,615 open Forward Deployed Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Wisconsin median$135–265K/yr26 salary ranges
- US median$31–91/hr62 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 31 open Forward Deployed Engineer jobs in Wisconsin and 2,615 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Forward Deployed Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 2,282 postings).
- Education
- 674 of the 2,615 open Forward Deployed Engineer jobs (26%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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