Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

OfferZen's client, Wonderful.ai is hiring for a Forward Deployed Engineer to join their growing team!

Wonderful.ai is a young start-up with $300M raised, and is now valued at $2B after 18 months of operations. They've grown to 600 employees across 32 countries, with an engineering team that includes people from Google, Palantir, Databricks, Microsoft, and Slack. They enable enterprises to build, test, deploy, and monitor AI agents for their most complex needs, serving customers and employees seamlessly across voice, chat, email, and back-office systems in any language or cultural context.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Wonderful, you’ll solve high-impact, real-world problems alongside enterprise customers and own work from first principles through production outcomes.

• →Location: must be based in or willing to relocate to Johannesburg (office is in Rosebank)
• →Office attendance: ~4 days a week on-site, typically at a client's office, not Wonderful's own office
• →Citizenship/visa: no strict requirement to be SA citizen, but no visa sponsorship available — candidate must already have the right to work in SA
• →Compensation expectation: targeting 95th–99th percentile of local market rates - they’re willing to pay top of the range for talent, skill and experience
• →Pay structure: paid in ZAR, but employee can choose to anchor salary value to USD (converted at spot rate monthly) if they wish