Engineering Lead- Forward Deployed Engineering
Who we are
Ema is building the world’s largest agentic AI platform to revolutionize enterprise productivity. Our proprietary technology enables companies to delegate repetitive tasks to Ema, the Universal AI employee, unlocking 10x gains in workforce efficiency. Founded by ex-Google, Coinbase, Flipkart, and Okta executives, we bring deep product and scaling expertise to this mission. Our team includes top engineers from Google, Microsoft Research, Facebook, Square, and Coinbase, and alumni of Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley, CMU, and IITs.
We’ve raised over $60M from top-tier investors including Accel, Naspers/Prosus, Section32, SCB10X, Sozo Ventures, Hitachi Ventures, and prominent angels like Sheryl Sandberg, Jerry Yang, and Dustin Moskovitz. Ema is headquartered in Silicon Valley with a second hub in Bangalore, India. This is a hybrid role requiring in-office work three days per week.
Role Overview
Ema is on a mission to redefine the future of work by building a Universal AI Employee that empowers every worker to delegate repetitive, high-value tasks to intelligent, agentic AI systems. As the Engineering Lead on our Forward Deployment Engineering (FDE) team, you’ll play a pivotal role in translating this vision into real-world impact. From discovery workshops to production deployments, you will lead the design of scalable, secure, and observable AI-powered workflows—turning customer ambitions into enterprise-grade solutions that deliver measurable value.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Workflow Discovery & Solution Design: Lead discovery workshops to understand human workflows, pain points, data flows, and integration needs. Translate business objectives into AI architecture blueprints covering integration, data, security, and success metrics. Author and maintain “AI-Employee” design documents to guide implementation from blueprint to SLOs.
- Data Integration & Action Building: Use declarative connectors and APIs to ingest, normalize, and secure data from en...