Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

Who you are

• 8+ years of experience as a Technical Marketing Engineer, Sales Engineer, Network Engineer, or similar customer-facing technical role
• Strong understanding of enterprise networking concepts, including routing, switching, and network change management
• Experience with NetDevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, or infrastructure-as-code workflows applied to networking
• Familiarity with source control (Git), API integration, and building automation against network data models
• Hands-on experience with network automation tooling and frameworks (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Python, REST APIs, or similar)
• Experience working with complex enterprise networks across on-prem, virtualized, and cloud environments
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform and familiarity with virtualization and containerized environments
• Proven ability to build and operate lab environments for demos and technical validation
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Networking, or a related field
• Ability to work effectively across Product, Sales, and Marketing teams
• Working knowledge of data query and transformation languages (e.g., GraphQL, JSONPath, or a query engine such as Forward's NQE)
• Familiarity with AI/ML concepts and hands-on experience exploring AI-driven use cases in network operations or data analysis
• Working knowledge of Linux administration
• Familiarity with Forward or similar network visibility, verification, or analytics platforms
• Experience presenting at conferences, webinars, or customer-facing technical events

What the job involves

• We are seeking a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer (Network Automation) to help drive adoption and understanding of Forward's automation capabilities across customers, partners, and the broader network engineering community
• As a Senior Network Automation TME, you will sit at the intersection of product and go-to-market execution. You will translate Forward's differentiated automation capabilities — network queries, verification-as-code, API-driven workflows, and CI/CD-style change validation — into compelling automation workflows, technical content, and field enablement that resonate with network automation practitioners and decision-makers
• This is a non-quota-carrying, highly technical, and externally visible role with meaningful influence on product direction and market positioning
• Partner with Product Management to define, validate, and shape automation-related capabilities and use cases
• Design and evangelize customer workflows that realize the value of automation features, including NQE (Network Query Engine), APIs, and CI/CD-driven verification
• Enhance existing product integrations and build new ones to expand automation and interoperability across the broader network and IT ecosystem
• Build and maintain lab environments to support demos, technical validation, and automation use-case exploration
• Develop high-quality technical collateral for internal audiences, including training materials, demo guides, and sales enablement content
• Collaborate with Marketing to create external-facing assets such as whitepapers, solution briefs, blogs, presentations, and videos
• Enable Sales and Solutions teams with automation-focused demos, messaging, and technical training
• Represent Forward at customer meetings, webinars, and industry events, including networking and automation conferences and trade shows
• Contribute thought leadership on network automation trends and Forward's role in modern NetDevOps and intent-based networking architectures
• Gather field and market feedback to influence product roadmap and automation positioning

Benefits

• We’re an agile team and early-stage company with plenty of opportunities to grow, as a company and as individuals.
• Every team member receives a compensation package that includes equity, so we can grow together.
• We offer top-grade insurance, with medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family.
• Vacations, holidays, family days. With no tracked time off, you can go as long as it’s okay with your manager.