Ava Labs
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
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Worldwide
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Salary
$143,000–$179,000
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Worldwide
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Not stated
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Full-time
Experience
Senior
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Software
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Remote flexibility
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About the role
Looking to join a world-class blockchain development team? Ava Labs makes it simple to deploy high-performance solutions for Web3, led by innovations on Avalanche. The company was founded by Cornell computer scientists, who partnered with Wall Street veterans and early Web3 leaders to execute a promising vision for redefining the way people build permissionless networks. Ava Labs is redefining the way people create value with Web3. Join us as we empower people to easily and freely digitize all the world’s assets on one open, programmable blockchain platform.
Looking to join a world-class blockchain development team? Ava Labs makes it simple to deploy high-performance solutions for Web3, led by innovations on Avalanche. The company was founded by Cornell computer scientists, who partnered with Wall Street veterans and early Web3 leaders to execute a promising vision for redefining the way people build permissionless networks. Ava Labs is redefining the way people create value with Web3. Join us as we empower people to easily and freely digitize all the world's assets on one open, programmable blockchain platform.
We are looking for a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to join the Forward-Deployed Engineering (FDE) function at Ava Labs. This is a senior individual contributor role sitting within the Platform Engineering Group, reporting to the Head of Forward Deployed Engineering.
FDE is a partner-facing engineering team that designs and ships bespoke solutions for a small set of high-profile regulated financial institutions deploying on Avalanche and also owns key portions of the developer tooling and SDK surface that those partners (and the broader ecosystem) build against. The team operates through deep technical engagements, not back-to-back calls: weeks of hands-on engineering between syncs is the norm.
The right person brings Avalanche stack fluency, hands-on enterprise/on-prem experience, and AI-native execution, and can translate a Director of Engineering's requirements at a regulated financial institution into a working solution without a handoff chain.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
Partner Delivery
Own FDE technical delivery across a named set of institutional partners — designing the architecture across the entire Avalanche stack (node / validator setup, failover procedures, interoperability, …) from partner ask to working output
Pair with Enterprise Go-to-Market on active POCs to close the gap between commercial requirements and production-grade technical solutions
Represent Avalanche credibly in partner-facing technical settings: sit across from Directors of Engineering at financial institutions and translate bespoke asks into scoped requirements without losing the strategic frame
Engage in depth, not volume — most weeks are heads-down implementation work punctuated by focused technical syncs, not a meeting-heavy customer-success cadence
Protocol & Infrastructure
Work hands-on across the Avalanche stack: AvalancheGo, EVM, Interchain Messaging, and validator infrastructure
Design and implement solutions that operate within the constraints regulated institutions actually run: KMS/HSM remote signing, audit trails, restricted-peer networking, backup/restore procedures, firewall topologies
Respond to security assessment requests and technical diligence from institutional partners
Tooling & Developer Infrastructure
Contribute to and maintain the developer tooling and SDK surface owned by FDE. This is the same tooling that underpins partner deployments and the broader Avalanche ecosystem
Harden, extend, and document tooling driven by recurring institutional requirements, so that the next partner inherits a more capable platform than the last
Treat tooling work and partner delivery as a single loop: lessons from each engagement land back in the shared surface
Playbook Development
Identify when a one-off partner solution should become a reusable FDE artifact and drive that abstraction
Build and maintain runbooks, technical documentation, and the FDE Protocol Requests database (Notion-tracked)
Accelerate conversion timelines for subsequent regulated partners by compounding the institutional playbook with each engagement
Team & Function
Requirements
- ·Hands-on depth across the Avalanche (or a comparable L1/L2) stack: client implementation, EVM, cross-chain messaging, and validator infrastructure — able to design and ship solutions at each layer without senior backup
- ·AI-native execution, proven ability to leverage modern coding assistants and agentic tooling to produce production-grade output at speed
- ·Customer-facing maturity in enterprise or institutional settings; comfortable representing technical depth to senior engineering stakeholders at regulated financial institutions
- ·Strong documentation and operational discipline: you close loops, build runbooks, and maintain the tracked artifacts FDE's institutional partners depend on
- ·Pattern abstraction instinct, you recognize when a bespoke partner solution should be generalized and you drive that productization
Benefits
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