Senior Director, Forward Deployed Engineering, Americas
C3 AI · Redwood City, California, United States
Posted 8 days ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 8 days C3 AI's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of C3 AI's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at C3 AI
- high 55 stale, 0 reposted of 72 open
- Hiring momentum
- 94 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from C3 AI's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for C3 AI.
About this role
The Senior Director of Forward Deployed Engineering at C3 AI will lead and scale the customer-facing engineering organization across the Americas. This role involves managing multiple engineering pods, ensuring the delivery of high-quality enterprise AI applications, and collaborating with various departments to meet customer needs. The director will also focus on talent development, technical execution, and maintaining engineering standards while engaging with senior stakeholders and customers.
- benefits
- 2/5
- freshness
- 5/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of C3 AI as an employer.
What you need
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or another technical discipline
- 12+ years of professional software engineering or highly technical product development experience
- 7+ years of experience leading highly technical engineering organizations
- Demonstrated experience building, scaling, and operating customer-facing engineering teams
- Deep understanding of modern software engineering, including full-stack application development, distributed systems, data platforms, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise software architecture
- Demonstrated experience delivering complex enterprise software into production environments
Nice to have
- Prior experience in a forward-deployed engineering or similar customer-facing technical organization
- Experience leading organizations responsible for both software engineering and direct customer delivery
- Hands-on software development experience with Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or similar languages
- Experience with modern web application frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue
- Experience with AI/ML applications, enterprise data platforms, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or large-scale data processing
What you get
- Excellent benefits
- Competitive compensation package
- Generous equity plan
Worth weighing
- No specific details on the company's culture or work-life balance are provided
- The role requires significant travel which may impact personal time
- The salary range is broad, indicating potential variability in compensation based on experience or negotiation
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Listed by C3 AI on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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