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title: 'Head of Forward Deployed Engineering at Blitzy'
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# Head of Forward Deployed Engineering at Blitzy

- **Company:** Blitzy
- **Location:** Cambridge, MA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/blitzy/2a8c95cd-907b-4504-9c90-ddb7a75f1ece

## Job description

Blitzy is a Cambridge, MA based AI software development platform on a mission to revolutionize the software development life cycle by autonomously building custom software to unlock the next industrial revolution. We're transforming how enterprises build software, turning enterprise requirements into enterprise grade code with an agentic software development platform that can autonomously execute 80% of the quantum of software development work. We're backed by multiple tier 1 investors, and have proven success as founders of previous start-ups.

Our Culture Who we are: Led by two pioneering co-founders we are one of the fastest growing companies in the U.S., creating our own category of enterprise autonomous software development. We automate thousands of hours of software development for our customers, which includes strong representation within the Fortune 500. How we work:

- We move Blitzy Fast: Time is both our company’s and our clients’ most precious asset. We move quickly and decisively to innovate internally and deliver exceptional software externally.
- Championship Mindset: We operate like a professional sports team. We win as a team by holding ourselves and each other to high standards, collaborating in-person, and remaining focused on the mission.
- Passion for Invention: We’re pushing the frontier of what’s possible, requiring constant innovation and iteration.
- We Work for the Customer: We focus on delivering outsized value to the customers we work with and expanding those relationships into deep, meaningful partnerships.

We're looking for a Head of Forward Deployed Engineering to lead and grow our embedded engineering practice across a portfolio of enterprise accounts. This is a player-coach leadership role for an experienced engineering leader who thrives in the white space between hands-on technical delivery and strategic client partnership. You'll manage a team of Forward Deployed Software Engineers while remaining close enough to the technical work to earn credibility with customer engineering teams. You're as comfortable reviewing a pull request or debugging an integration as you are presenting a transformation roadmap to a VP of Engineering. You bring structure and accountability to delivery without sacrificing the speed and adaptability that make Blitzy different.

## Responsibilities

## Team Leadership & Delivery

- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Forward Deployed Software Engineers embedded across customer environments
- Set standards for customer engagement, and delivery rigor across all active accounts and engineering quality
- Serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex integration or delivery challenges
- Balance multiple concurrent engagements, ensuring each is appropriately scoped and resourced

Customer Partnership

- Own senior relationships at key accounts, engaging primarily at the VP Engineering and Director level
- Participate in architecture reviews, sprint planning, and technical decision-making alongside customer teams
- Lead business reviews that translate technical delivery progress into measurable business outcomes
- Support pre-sales efforts for new enterprise accounts by bringing delivery credibility to the conversation

Hands-On Technical Contribution

- Stay technically engaged — review code, contribute to integrations, and debug complex issues when the situation demands it
- Build and maintain reusable delivery assets, integration patterns, and best practices across the team
- Develop technical demos and POC frameworks that accelerate customer adoption of Blitzy's platform

Strategic & Organizational Impact

- Partner with Product, Sales, and executive leadership to define the growth strategy for the FDE function
- Establish delivery frameworks and feedback loops that drive continuous improvement across engagements
- Contribute field intelligence that shapes product prioritization and enterprise go-to-market strategy
- Contribute to thought leadership, documentation, and reusable delivery IP

## Qualifications

Required Experience

- Proven experience leading teams in customer-facing, embedded, or professional services engineering environments
- Proven experience standing up a delivery framework from scratch
- 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including at least 3 years in a technical leadership capacity
- Fluency across the modern enterprise technology stack: cloud infrastructure, APIs, microservices, CI/CD, and AI/ML integration
- Demonstrated ability to manage delivery across multiple concurrent enterprise engagements
- Strong communication skills — able to engage credibly from engineer to VP, adapting your style to the audience
- Experience with IDEs - code-assistant tools within software development workflows

## Preferred Experience

- Experience at a high-growth startup or in a Forward Deployed Engineering, embedded consulting, or technical account management role
- Background in AI/ML platforms, developer tooling, or enterprise software modernization
- Track record of building and scaling small-to-mid-sized technical teams in outcome-driven environments
- History of converting delivery excellence into account expansion and long-term partnerships
- Technical thought leadership: open source contributions, conference talks, or published writing

## About Blitzy

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Blitzy is an autonomous software development platform that uses thousands of specialized AI agents to reverse-engineer complex enterprise codebases and deliver over 80% of entire software projects as production-ready, tested code.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed / Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States (also listed as Boston, MA)
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Sid Pardeshi (Co-founder & CEO) and Brian Elliott (Co-founder & CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise AI / Autonomous Software Development
- **Target customers**: Large enterprises with complex codebases, development agencies with enterprise clients, and engineering teams managing legacy or modern code at scale.
- **Mission statement**: To transform six-month software projects into six-day turnarounds by building a purpose-built system that combines inference-time compute with deep, real-time codebase understanding.

## Products & Services
- **[Blitzy OS]**: The core agentic platform that orchestrates thousands of specialized AI agents across multiple foundation models to autonomously plan, build, and validate software. It reverse engineers 100M+ lines of code, constructs a dynamic knowledge graph, and executes the full SDLC from scoping to runtime validation. Output is complete PRs with compiled code, end-to-end tests, and documentation.
- **Pricing Tiers – Evaluation Phase**: Reverse Engineer ($0, up to 100K lines), Proof of Concept ($50K for 2 months), Structured Pilot ($250K for 6 months).
- **Pricing Tiers – Deployment**: Commercial (~$500K/yr), Enterprise (~$5M/yr), Transformation (~$50M/yr). Pricing is per-line: $0.10/line for onboarding (reverse engineering) and $0.20/line for generation.
- **Security & Compliance**: SOC 2 Type II compliant, ISO 27001 certified, guaranteed no training on customer code.
- **Deployment Options**: Secure enterprise deployment (cloud or dedicated), with Forward Deployed Engineers, Field CTOs, and AI Solutions Consultants for higher tiers.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric – Total Funding**: $8.8M (Seed round $4.4M in September 2024; Series A led by Northzone with 14 investors)
- **Notable Investors**: Northzone (Series A lead)
- **Growth Signals**: 66 employees as of mid-2026 (+440% YoY) [linkedin.com]; holds the record score on SWE-Bench Pro; over 27 patents (pending or granted) in Generative AI; revenue model already includes million-dollar enterprise contracts (Commercial, Enterprise, Transformation tiers).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Autonomy at scale**: Delivers 80%+ of entire software projects without human intervention, not just code snippets, differentiating from co-pilots.
- **Enterprise-grade foundation**: Built from day one for IP-sensitive organizations; SOC 2, ISO 27001, and no training on customer code.
- **Multi-agent orchestration**: Fuses every major foundation model across 3,000+ specialized agents to ensure quality and consistency.
- **Deep codebase understanding**: Reverse engineers 100M+ lines to build a dynamic knowledge graph that grounds every agent in the actual system architecture.
- **Patents**: 27+ patents in Generative AI, covering proprietary code generation and codebase representation.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue to push autonomy toward 100% of the SDLC (beyond just coding) while maintaining enterprise security and quality standards.
- Scale engineering and go-to-market teams (currently hiring PhDs, senior backend engineers, SREs, Forward Deployed Engineers, Sales, and Solutions Consulting).
- Expand enterprise deployments with structured pilots and transparent per-line pricing to lower adoption risk.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture fit**: Fast-paced, high-autonomy environment where you work on solving fundamental problems in AI-driven software development. Emphasis on "System 2 Thinking" – deliberate, multi-step reasoning at inference.
- **Engineering focus**: Actively hiring PhDs and senior developers passionate about building production-quality AI systems. Strong culture of code quality and security.
- **Work model**: Hybrid workspace with offices in Cambridge, MA and India (some roles require in-office presence).
- **Notable perks**: Opportunity to work with cutting-edge models, influence product direction at an early-stage company, and contribute to patented technology. Generous equity and competitive compensation implied by investor-backed growth.
- **Team**: Small but rapidly growing (66 people), flat structure with direct access to founders who are former NVIDIA engineers and US Army Rangers.

## Sources
1. [blitzy.com](https://blitzy.com/)
2. [blitzy.com/our_story](https://blitzy.com/our_story)
3. [builtin.com/company/blitzy-1](https://builtin.com/company/blitzy-1)
4. [linkedin.com/company/blitzyai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/blitzyai)

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