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Salary: USD 200,000 - 230,000 / annual
Forward Networks, founded in 2013 by Stanford Ph.D.s, has built the industry's first network digital twin—a mathematically accurate model of production networks that enables autonomous networking. The platform gives engineers and AI agents the ability to predict the impact of every change before it touches production. Trusted by global leaders including Goldman Sachs, PayPal, S&P Global, IBM, and Dell, Forward has demonstrated an average of $14.2 million in annual benefits per customer (IDC). The company is backed by top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Goldman Sachs, and others, and is headquartered in Santa Clara.
You will serve as Senior Technical Marketing Engineer for Network Automation, sitting at the intersection of product and go-to-market execution. This is a non-quota-carrying, highly technical, externally visible role with meaningful influence on product direction and market positioning.
Key responsibilities include:
- Partner with Product Management to define and validate automation-related capabilities and use cases
- Design and evangelize customer workflows that demonstrate the value of automation features (Network Query Engine, APIs, CI/CD-driven verification)
- Enhance existing product integrations and build new ones to expand automation across the network and IT ecosystem
- Build and maintain lab environments for demos, technical validation, and automation exploration
- Develop technical collateral for internal audiences (training materials, demo guides, sales enablement)
- Collaborate with Marketing on external-facing assets (whitepapers, solution briefs, blogs, presentations, videos)
- Enable Sales and Solutions teams with automation-focused demos, messaging, and technical training
- Represent Forward at customer meetings, webinars, industry events, and conferences
- Contribute thought leadership on network automation trends and Forward's role in modern NetDevOps and intent-based networking
- Gather field and market feedback to influence product roadmap and positioning
REQUIREMENTS:
- 8+ years as a Technical Marketing Engineer, Sales Engineer, Network Engineer, or similar customer-facing technical role
- Strong understanding of enterprise networking (routing, switching, network change management)
- Experience with NetDevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, or infrastructure-as-code applied to networking
- Familiarity with source control (Git), API integration, and building automation against network data models
- Hands-on experience with network automation tooling (Ansible, Terraform, Python, REST APIs, or similar)
- Experience with complex enterprise networks across on-prem, virtualized, and cloud environments
- Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform; familiarity with virtualization and containerized environments
- Proven ability to build and operate lab environments for demos and technical validation
- Excellent communication and presentation skills for technical and non-technical audiences
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Networking, or related field
- Ability to work effectively across Product, Sales, and Marketing teams
PREFERRED:
- Working knowledge of data query and transformation languages (GraphQL, JSONPath, or query engines like NQE)
- Familiarity with AI/ML concepts and hands-on experience with AI-driven use cases in network operations
- Linux administration knowledge
- Familiarity with Forward or similar network visibility/verification/analytics platforms
- Experience presenting at conferences, webinars, or customer-facing technical events
