How do you turn ambitious use cases into real, working solutions that prove their value fast? As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you bring ideas to life through hands-on prototyping, transforming complex requirements into tangible, high-impact solutions.
You’ll operate at the edge of what’s possible with Coveo, working directly with customers and internal teams to validate new use cases, push product boundaries, and shape what comes next, before it reaches production.
This role supports our DACH customers, working on European business hours. You’ll own a portfolio of accounts, working in German and English, and travelling to customer sites when the engagement calls for it.
As our Forward Deployed Engineer, you will:
- Disambiguate customer needs to shape clear, compelling use cases and solution architectures.
- Build working prototypes and technical proofs based on approved use cases.
- Translate business and architectural requirements into functional, testable solutions.
- Validate solution feasibility, performance, and scalability through hands-on experimentation.
- Iterate rapidly on solutions to accelerate production readiness, generating reusable patterns and sharing insights across teams.
- Serve as the primary technical owner for assigned DACH accounts, building trusted stakeholder relationships and driving solutions to adoption while working European hours and traveling on-site as required.
- Deliver workshops, requirements sessions, technical documentation, and demos fluently in German and English.
Here is what will qualify you for the role:
- 7+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, system integration, or related fields.
- Professional fluency in both German and English (written and spoken) for customer-facing delivery.
- Strong technical prototyping skills spanning APIs, data pipelines, and front-end/back-end systems.
- Proven track record in ambiguous, high-impact environments, combining strong problem-solving skills with a rapid, experimentation-driven mindset.
What will make you stand out:
- Experience working directly with customers in technical, solution-oriented roles
- Ability to navigate between business context and deep technical execution
- Curiosity and drive to explore new approaches and push product capabilities further
- Experience contributing insights that influence product or platform evolution
Do you think you can bring this role to life? Or add your own color?
You don’t need to check every single box; passion goes a long way and we appreciate that skillsets are transferable.
Send us your application, we want to hear from you!
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We encourage all qualified candidates to apply regardless of, for example, age, gender, disability, gaps in CV, national or ethnic background.
This job description was written by humans, assisted by AI. We may leverage technology in our hiring process to help us see the person behind the resume.
Skills Required
- 7+ years hands-on experience in software engineering, system integration, or related fields
- Professional fluency in German and English (written and spoken) for customer-facing delivery
- Strong technical prototyping skills spanning APIs, data pipelines, and front-end/back-end systems
- Proven track record in ambiguous, high-impact environments with rapid, experimentation-driven mindset
- Willingness to work European business hours and travel to customer sites as required
- Experience working directly with customers in technical, solution-oriented roles
- Ability to navigate between business context and deep technical execution
- Experience contributing insights that influence product or platform evolution
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid holidays, PTO/sick leave, volunteer time off, and work‑from‑home flexibility are commonly available. Flexible working hours and solid vacation policies in Canada further support work‑life balance.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental‑leave top‑ups, options to extend leave, and on‑site daycare in Quebec City indicate robust family support. These provisions complement caregiver‑friendly flexibility in day‑to‑day scheduling.
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What We Do
Coveo powers the digital experiences of the world’s most innovative brands serving millions of people and billions of interactions across every digital experience. After a decade of enriching our market-leading platform with forward-thinking global enterprises, we know what it takes to gain a trusted AI-experience advantage. We strongly believe that the future is business-to-person, that experience is today’s competitive front line, a make or break for every business. For enterprises to achieve this AI-experience advantage at scale, it is imperative to have an Enterprise Spinal and composable ability to deliver AI semantic search and generative experiences at each customer and employee interaction.
