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Principal Forward Deployment Engineer

Cornerstone OnDemandVisit website ↗·Posted 1 month ago

Location

TS, IN

Experience

1–2 years

Required Skills

PythonJavaGoRESTAISAP

About the Role

**We're looking for a Principal Forward Deployment Engineer
This role is Office Based, Hyderabad Office**Principal Forward Deployment Engineer - India This role is Office/Field Based, Hyderabad Office
We are seeking an accomplished Principal Forward Deployed Engineer to serve as the critical bridge between Cornerstone's product engineering teams and our most strategic enterprise customers. As a principal-level FDE, you will own end-to-end technical engagements, drive successful deployments of AI-powered Workforce Agility products, and translate complex customer needs into product innovations.

In this role you will…

  • • Lead technical deployments and integrations of Cornerstone's AI-native Workforce Agility products at strategic enterprise accounts, ensuring high-impact, successful outcomes.

  • • Act as the primary technical authority in customer engagements — owning solution architecture, implementation strategy, and long-term adoption planning.

  • • Partner directly with customers to deeply understand their workforce challenges, then design and deliver tailored AI-driven solutions leveraging Generative AI and Agentic Frameworks.

  • • Translate field learnings into actionable product feedback, influencing roadmap decisions by collaborating closely with Product, Engineering, and AI teams.

  • • Build and maintain reference architectures, integration patterns, and deployment playbooks that scale best practices across the FDE organization.

  • • Mentor and technically guide junior FDEs, establishing standards for customer delivery, technical discovery, and solution design.

  • • Present technical vision and deployment strategies to C-suite and senior stakeholders, building confidence and driving executive alignment.

  • • Identify and prototype custom solutions — including scripts, APIs, and AI workflow extensions — that accelerate customer time-to-value.

  • • Stay current with enterprise integration technologies, AI advancements, and industry trends to continuously elevate customer engagements.

    • You've got what it takes if you have…

  • • Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or a closely related field (or equivalent experience in senior enterprise technical roles.

  • • 6. years of hands-on experience in enterprise software deployment, systems integration, or solutions engineering — with strong proficiency in Python, Java, or equivalent.

  • • 1–2 years of experience deploying or integrating products built on Generative AI, LLMs, or Agentic Frameworks in production enterprise environments.

  • • Deep familiarity with AI/ML concepts (NLP, recommendation systems, LLMs) sufficient to architect AI-native solutions and communicate technical trade-offs to customers.

  • • Proven track record of owning complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise deployments from discovery through go-live and value realization.

  • • Experience with Agentic systems and familiarity with A2A (Agent-to-Agent) and MCP (Model Context Protocol) patterns in customer-facing contexts.

  • • Strong understanding of enterprise integration patterns — REST APIs, event-driven architectures, SSO/identity, HRIS/HCM systems (Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, etc.).

  • • Exceptional communication and executive presence: equally fluent explaining architecture to engineers and articulating business value to CHROs and CTOs.

  • • Outstanding problem-solving instincts — able to diagnose ambiguous customer environments quickly and drive toward solutions under pressure.

  • • Leadership qualities that inspire trust with customers and cross-functional internal teams alike.


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    Our Culture: Spark Greatness. Shatter Boundaries. Share Success. Are you ready? Because here, right now – is where the future of work is happening. Where curious disruptors and change innovators like you are helping communities and customers enable everyone – anywhere – to learn, grow and advance. To be better tomorrow than they are today.

    Who We Are:


    Cornerstone powers the potential of organizations and their people to thrive in a changing world. Cornerstone Galaxy, the complete AI-powered workforce agility platform, meets organizations where they are. With Galaxy, organizations can identify skills gaps and development opportunities, retain and engage top talent, and provide multimodal learning experiences to meet the diverse needs of the modern workforce. More than 7,000 organizations and 100 million. users in 180. countries and in nearly 50 languages use Cornerstone Galaxy to build high-performing, future-ready organizations and people today.


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    Someone who has shipped 2+ production GenAI/LLM integrations at enterprise scale and thrives translating messy customer problems into architectural decisions.

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