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title: 'Forward Deployed Engineer (EMEA) at CloudX'
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# Forward Deployed Engineer (EMEA) at CloudX

- **Company:** CloudX
- **Location:** Global
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2025-12-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/cloudx/am9icG9zdDpeKsFdJi4-XHsx-ZhzZLk-

## Job description

## About CloudX

At CloudX we’re building a new supply-side advertising platform for mobile publishers. We’re convinced that an AI-native product will significantly advance the state of the art in mobile advertising; we [recently raised a $30M Series A](https://www.cloudx.io/posts/hello-world) in order to bring this dream to life. We have a long history of innovation in this space — our founding team previously built MoPub (sold to Twitter for $350M) and MAX (acquired by AppLovin). Our new platform combines real technical improvements like [verifiably fair auctions](https://www.cloudx.io/posts/the-trust-problem-in-ad-tech-and-how-we-solved-it) with a truly [AI-native product experience](https://www.cloudx.io/posts/monetization-as-code) to give publishers unprecedented control over their ad monetization strategy.

## The Role

Embed directly with publishers to design, build, and ship the integration solutions that get them live on CloudX. You'll own the work from pre-sales integration discussion through hands-on integration, deployed tooling, and ongoing optimization. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you're an engineer first. You write the code, stand up the automation, and solve problems in the partner's environment. You combine deep ad tech expertise with consultative problem solving to ensure partners extract maximum value from CloudX's platform.

## What You'll Do

- Own SDK integration end-to-end, from kickoff to first impression served, writing and debugging code alongside the partner's engineering team
- Build and ship production-grade integration, automation, AI agents, internal tools, and custom solutions that make each integration faster and more reliable than the last
- Provide real-time, hands-on technical support during integration, QA, and optimization diving into logs, auctions, and live traffic
- Troubleshoot issues across the full ad delivery pipeline: SDK, auctions, bidding, reporting
- Leverage AI to analyze integration patterns, predict issues before they surface, and generate technical documentation and diagnostics
- Turn recurring partner problems into reusable, deployable solutions then work with Product and Engineering to fold them back into the core platform
- Monitor partner technical health and proactively surface optimization opportunities through data analysis and AI insights
- Collaborate with engineering and product to create and maintain technical documentation, integration guides, and best-practice playbooks using AI assistance

## What You Bring

- 5+ years as a Software Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Engineer, or Integration Engineer, with substantial time spent writing and shipping code and not just managing projects
- Proven ability to lead and implement complex technical integrations with clients, ideally in mobile, SDK-based, or programmatic advertising environments
- Strong proficiency in iOS (Swift, Objective-C) and Android (Kotlin, Java) for SDK integration and debugging
- Comfort building backend services, scripts, and automation in a general-purpose language (Python, Go, or similar)
- Deep understanding of the ad-tech ecosystem: mediation platforms, header bidding, RTB/OpenRTB, auction mechanics, ad servers
- Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills across client-side and server-side systems
- Hands-on experience using AI tools (like Claude) to accelerate code generation, debugging, documentation, and log analysis
- Ability to build AI-powered automation that scales your impact well beyond manual work
- Excellent communication skills. You can explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Willingness to travel to and embed with partners as needed

## What We're Looking For

Engineer who ships in the field: You've built and deployed real solutions inside complex ad tech integrations. You can write code to solve problems on the spot. That might mean debugging an SDK issue, building an automation script, or standing up a custom solution. You're comfortable diving into logs, analyzing auction data, and finding solutions under real world constraints. Consultative mindset: You're not just an implementer. You're a trusted technical advisor. You ask great questions to understand publisher needs. You design solutions that balance requirements with platform constraints, and you guide partners toward optimal outcomes. Bridge builder: You translate between technical and business worlds effectively. Problem solving: When integrations break or partners face issues, you form hypotheses, test them methodically, and communicate clearly throughout. You don't just fix the immediate problem. You identify root causes and prevent recurrence. High ownership and initiative: You own partner technical success end to end. When you spot a way to improve the platform or the process, you build the prototype, document the proposal, and drive the change. Early-stage mentality: You thrive in ambiguity and move fast. You know when "good enough" beats perfect and when to push for rigor. You're comfortable wearing multiple hats. One day it's hands-on integration, the next it's presenting to executives, and the day after it's building deployable tooling. AI-forward approach: You actively use AI tools to scale your impact. That includes analyzing logs, debugging code, creating documentation, and building automation. You understand what AI accelerates and where human expertise is critical, and you're excited to build AI-powered solutions for partners.

## What We Offer

- Competitive salary  + equity + benefits
- Remote work flexibility with follow-the-sun coverage model
- Work directly with MoPub/MAX founding team
- Shape the future of ad tech infrastructure

## About CloudX

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: CloudX is an AI-native supply-side platform (SSP) for mobile and AI publishers, rebuilding publisher monetization infrastructure for the intelligence era.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Suffield, Connecticut, USA (also offices in San Francisco, New York, Las Vegas, Aspen)
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Jim Payne (Founder & CEO), Jack Kern (Co-Founder & Chief of Staff)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AdTech / Mobile Advertising / Artificial Intelligence
- **Target customers**: Mobile publishers, AI-native publishers, app developers (B2B)
- **Mission or purpose**: To redefine the future of mobile advertising by providing a secure, transparent, AI-native auction infrastructure that puts publishers first, leveraging Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) and real-time intelligence.

## Products & Services
- **CloudX SSP (Supply-Side Platform)**: Core platform that provides a liquid marketplace, AI workflows, and real-time bid optimization for mobile and AI publishers. Includes a secure, AI-native auction infrastructure powered by TEE.
- **CloudX Agent**: An AI-powered assistant that lets publishers interact with their inventory via natural language—review metrics, run A/B tests, update pricing strategies, or get integration help. Available in beta from every page in CloudX.
- **Total Revenue Dashboard**: A unified reporting view that consolidates data from multiple platforms, addressing reporting complexity for multi-platform publishers.
- **DT SDK Bidder**: A new demand source that matches performance and brand demand across all formats, now live for CloudX publishers.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$30.1M** (Series A, raised in November 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lead investor: **Addition** (Series A, 6 investors total). Key partnerships include DT (demand source).
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount: 36 employees (as of mid-2026), with a **monthly growth rate of +5.1%**.
  - Distributed workforce across 11 countries (US, UK, Singapore, Kyrgyzstan, Cyprus, Ukraine, Switzerland, North Macedonia, Slovenia, Argentina, and more).
  - Active hiring across technical and business roles (Senior ML Engineer, Senior Fullstack Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Business Development, etc.).
  - Recent product launches: CloudX Agent (July 2026), Total Revenue dashboard (August 2026), DT SDK Bidder (August 2026).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founding team pedigree**: Built by the creators of **MoPub** and **MAX**—two transformative mobile ad platforms. This deep industry expertise gives them a unique understanding of publisher pain points.
- **TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) infrastructure**: Provides transparency, data integrity, and security for AI-driven ad auctions—a strong differentiator in a privacy-conscious era.
- **AI-native architecture**: Built from the ground up for AI, not retrofitted. Enables adaptive optimization, real-time intelligence, and support for generative/agentic environments.
- **Publisher-first approach**: Focus on empowering mobile publishers with control, transparency, and modern tools.

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding globally with the first dedicated BD hires in Turkey (a mobile gaming powerhouse) and growing the EMEA business.
- Scaling the engineering team to build out the AI-native platform, including the CloudX Agent and infrastructure for high-throughput, low-latency ad serving.
- Building out demand sources (e.g., DT SDK Bidder) to increase publisher revenue.
- Deepening multi-platform reporting and analytics capabilities.

## Why Work Here
- **Small, senior team**: CloudX emphasizes a "small, senior team" where engineers "own real surface area from day one." The average seniority skews towards experienced professionals (37% Specialist, 17% Head, 5% C-Level/Founder).
- **Remote & hybrid flexibility**: Roles are listed as "In-Office or Remote" with 7–37 locations depending on the role. The website notes "OnSite Workspace" but employees are distributed across 11 countries, indicating strong remote support.
- **Engineering culture**: Cutting-edge tech stack (AI, TEE, high-throughput systems). Blog posts detail architecture decisions (e.g., building an in-house sandbox platform for the Agent).
- **Perks & environment**: Fast-paced startup environment with a focus on ownership and impact. Alumni talent sources include Apple, Roblox, AssemblyAI, and Publicis Groupe.
- **Recent hiring push**: As of August 2026, CloudX is actively hiring for technical roles (Senior ML Engineer, Senior Data Engineer, Senior Fullstack, Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Senior Android SDK Engineer, Quality Engineer) and business roles (Business Development, Partner Success, Revenue Analytics).

## Sources
1. [cloudx.ai](https://www.cloudx.ai/careers) – Careers page (description, roles)
2. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cloudxinc) – Company overview, financials, headcount, locations, recent posts
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/cloudx) – Company profile, office locations, founding year
4. [builtinsf.com](https://www.builtinsf.com/company/cloudx/jobs) – Job listings, details on roles and culture

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