About Dialpad
Dialpad is the AI platform for customer experience, built to resolve customer problems in real time across voice and digital. Our AI agents learn from your best human agents and improve with every interaction, helping organizations understand their customers, deliver better experiences, increase operational efficiencies, and build a lasting competitive advantage.
Unlike legacy systems built to route and answer, or standalone agentic bot vendors built to deflect, Dialpad was built to resolve. Our AI agents and human agents operate on a single platform with shared context, allowing Agentic AI to resolve issues, advance deals, and eliminate busywork through automation while seamlessly handing conversations to humans when needed, with full context preserved.
Market-leading brands, including Randstad, Motorola Solutions, Netflix, the San Diego Padres, the Colorado Rockies Baseball Club, and Cal Athletics, trust Dialpad. Dialpad is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, GV, ICONIQ Capital, and T-Mobile.
Being a Dialer
At Dialpad, AI isn’t just a feature; it’s how our teams do their best work every day. We put powerful AI tools in every employee’s hands so they can move faster, think bigger, and achieve more.
We believe every conversation matters. And we’ve built the platform that turns those conversations into insight and action, for our customers and ourselves.
We look for people who are intensely curious and hold themselves to a high bar. Our ambition is significant, and achieving it requires a team that operates at the highest level. We seek individuals who embody our core traits: Scrappy, Curious, Optimistic, Persistent, and Empathetic.
Why Dialpad
Dialpad’s Agentic AI platform turns conversations into autonomous workflows that drive revenue, efficiency, and unforgettable customer experiences. Fortune 1000 companies trust our AI Voice & Digital Agents to resolve millions of interactions every day. We’re scaling fast and need Forward Deployed Engineers who want to be at the intersection of innovation and business impact.
Your Role
The primary purpose of our Forward Deployed Engineering team is to accelerate the adoption and realization of value from our AI platform by embedding within our most strategic customer accounts. You will be the crucial link that translates complex business challenges into production ready, high-impact Agentic AI systems, driving business outcomes. FDE’s will act as the company's most technically fluent business consultant and the customer's most trusted AI architects.
What We Do
Business Translation and Discovery: Rapidly embed with customer stakeholders and operational leaders to deeply understand their most complex, high-stakes business problems. Translate ambiguous business objectives into clear, shippable Agentic AI-powered solutions.
The Go-To-Market Bridge: Partner directly with our Sales, Sales Engineers, Professional Services and Customer Success teams to serve as the deep technical authority during critical pre-sales evaluations and post-sales deployments. You don't just sell the vision, you build the capability that validates the investment.
Product Alignment and Influence: Capture common customer pain points, successful integration patterns, and platform limitations discovered in the field. Synthesize and deliver this critical, high-value signal directly back to our core Product and Engineering teams to influence the product roadmap and accelerate feature development.
AI Envisioning: Navigate complex enterprise infrastructure (cloud, on-prem, data pipelines) to integrate our platform. Guide customers on production grade Agentic bot builds and integration to custom data connectors, orchestration logic, and full-stack systems that bring AI to life.
Agentic AI Design: Design and deploy complex multi-agent systems, architectures, and fine-tuned models tailored to the customer's unique data, domain, and security requirements. Author multi‑step prompts, retrieval pipelines, and decision logic that plug into CRMs, ERPs, and custom APIs via our MCP framework.
About You
4+ years of experience in a high-impact, customer-facing technical role such as Forward Deployed Engineering, Technical Consulting, high touch Sales Engineering or Solutions Architecture, or technical consulting for SaaS/AI products.
Deep, demonstrable expertise in the modern AI/ML stack: LLMs, Generative AI concepts, vector databases, and agent orchestration frameworks. Proficiency in Python, Go, JS/TS plus hands‑on experience with LLM frameworks.
Unrivaled Business Acumen: The ability to simplify technical complexity and communicate clear trade-offs, value propositions, and project plans to both a core engineering team and a non-technical C-suite executive.
You thrive in ambiguity, take full ownership of outcomes, and are driven by delivering tangible, measurable results for the customer, often working under tight timelines.
Contributor to a dynamic team culture, focused on high growth industry innovation, team collaboration, customer success, and having fun.
Bonus Points
Telephony stack knowledge (WebRTC, SIP, SBCs).
Experience deploying chatbots or voice bots at >10K daily conversations.
Contributions to open‑source AI agent frameworks.
How We Work
Our values mirror those of top forward‑deployed orgs: Customer First, Relentless Momentum, Extreme Ownership, and One Team. We ship, learn, and iterate - fast.
Why Join Dialpad
- Work at the center of the AI transformation in business communications
- Build and ship agentic AI products that are redefining how companies operate
- Join a team where AI amplifies every employee’s impact
- Competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and real opportunities for growth
We believe in investing in our people. Dialpad offers competitive benefits and perks, cutting-edge AI tools, and a robust training program that help you reach your full potential. We have designed our offices to be inclusive, offering a vibrant environment to cultivate collaboration and connection. Our exceptional culture, repeatedly recognized as a Great Place to Work, ensures that every employee feels valued and empowered to contribute to our collective success.
Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role and possess the fundamental traits, drive, and strong ambition we seek, but your experience doesn’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply.
Dialpad is an equal-opportunity employer. We are dedicated to creating a community of inclusion and an environment free from discrimination or harassment.
Skills Required
- 4+ years in a customer-facing technical role
- Expertise in AI/ML stack
- Proficiency in Python, Go, JS/TS
- Business acumen to communicate technical complexity
Dialpad Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Dialpad and has not been reviewed or approved by Dialpad.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Compensation is viewed as competitive across many roles, combining salary, bonuses, equity, and benefits into a well-rounded package. Overall satisfaction with pay and total compensation is characterized as positive.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off is described as generous, with an unlimited PTO policy highlighted as a standout element. This breadth of time off is positioned as a central strength of the benefits package.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is characterized as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, and mental health benefits. Such coverage depth is presented as a core strength of the overall package.
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What We Do
Dialpad is a cloud-based business phone system that turns conversations into opportunities and helps global teams make smarter calls--anywhere, anytime. We bring simplicity to the professional phone experience and some of the world’s most innovative companies use our platform. Dialpad's products span video meetings, cloud call centers, sales coaching and dialers and enterprise phone systems--and are all infused with the latest AI technologies to help every business make smarter calls. Customers include WeWork, Uber, Motorola Solutions, Domo and Xero. Investors include Amasia, Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis Ventures, GV, ICONIQ Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Section 32, Softbank and Work-Bench.
