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Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) L3

$125K - $277K Dallas, TX, US Mid Posted October 07, 2026

Role Description

Job Title: Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) L3 City: Dallas State/Province: Texas Posting Start Date: 10/8/26 Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients’ most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With over 230,000 employees and business partners across 65 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world. For additional information, visit us at www.wipro.com.

Role Purpose

The purpose of the role is to create exceptional and detailed architectural application design and provide thought leadership and enable delivery teams to provide exceptional client engagement and satisfaction.

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Roles and Responsibilities

  • Work hands-on with Product, Architecture, Engineering, QA, and UX teams to operationalize AI-DLC practices.
  • Enable Mob Construction, AI-assisted development, prompt engineering, and context-driven delivery.
  • Establish reference architectures, AI coding standards, reusable prompts, and semantic knowledge assets.
  • Coach teams on validation frameworks, AI quality practices, and human-in-the-loop controls.
  • Support brownfield semantic modeling and legacy system knowledge extraction.
  • Introduce AI engineering toolchains, evaluation pipelines, and MLOps/LLMOps practices.
  • Capture delivery learnings and convert them into reusable best practices.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
  • 8+ years of software engineering, architecture, QA, DevOps, or platform engineering experience
  • Hands-on experience delivering cloud-native and enterprise applications
  • Experience with AI-assisted development tools and modern software engineering practices
  • Strong coding and solution architecture background
  • Preferred: Experience with LLMs, Agentic AI, RAG, semantic search, or AI platform
  • Preferred: AWS/Azure/GCP certifications
  • Preferred: Experience in AI platform engineering and MLOps/LLMOps
  • Preferred: Financial Services domain experience

Technical & Soft Skills

  • Prompt engineering and context engineering
  • Python, Java, JavaScript, or modern cloud development stack
  • DevOps, CI/CD, GitHub, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Replit, etc.
  • GenAI platforms and LLM integration, MLOps / LLMOps
  • Semantic modeling and knowledge graph concepts
  • Coaching and mentoring experience
  • Collaboration across cross-functional teams
  • Strong verbal and written communication

Competencies

Being Respectful Always Communicating Demonstrating Stewardship Being Responsive Building Trust

Mandatory Skills: GenAI for Internet Software Products .

Experience: >10 YEARS .

The expected compensation for this role ranges from $125,000 to $277,000 .

Final compensation will depend on various factors, including your geographical location, minimum wage obligations, skills, and relevant experience. Based on the position, the role is also eligible for Wipro's standard benefits including a full range of medical and dental benefits options, disability insurance, paid time off (inclusive of sick leave), other paid and unpaid leave options.

Applicants are advised that employment in some roles may be conditioned on successful completion of a post-offer drug screening, subject to applicable state law.

Wipro provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Applications from veterans and people with disabilities are explicitly welcome.

Reinvent your world. We are building a modern Wipro. We are an end-to-end digital transformation partner with the boldest ambitions. To realize them, we need people inspired by reinvention. Of yourself, your career, and your skills. We want to see the constant evolution of our business and our industry. It has always been in our DNA - as the world around us changes, so do we. Join a business powered by purpose and a place that empowers you to design your own reinvention.

About Forward Deployed Engineering

Forward Deployed Engineers are embedded directly with customers to build custom solutions, integrate products into existing infrastructure, and bridge the gap between product engineering and customer success. The role combines deep technical skills with the ability to operate in client environments and translate business requirements into working software.

Originally pioneered by Palantir, the FDE model has spread across AI, enterprise SaaS, and cloud infrastructure companies. FDEs write production code, architect integrations, train customer teams, and feed product insights back to the core engineering organization. At companies like OpenAI, Salesforce, and Databricks, FDE teams are treated as elite engineering units that can ship custom solutions in days rather than quarters.

Typical FDE stack: Python, TypeScript, SQL, REST/GraphQL APIs, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), and increasingly LLM APIs and AI orchestration frameworks. Strong communication and the ability to context-switch between technical and business conversations are as important as coding ability.

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