Forward Deployed Engineer

Motorq is the leading connected vehicle intelligence platform, processing over 5 million trip miles and 500 million data points per day. We aggregate data directly from automotive OEM APIs — no hardware required — and deliver it as structured insights and automated workflows to fleet operators, lenders, rental companies, and automotive partners. Headquartered in the SF Bay Area with offices in Chennai, Bengaluru, and Seattle, Motorq has raised a $40M+ Series B and is growing rapidly across new geographies and use cases. We're part of the Stanford StartX community and deeply partnered with leading automotive OEMs including GM, Ford, Toyota, Stellantis, Volkswagen, Volvo, Tesla, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Rivian.

Some of the most important moments in a customer relationship happen in the room — when a demo lands perfectly, when a prototype makes an abstract capability suddenly real, or when a workshop shifts how a customer thinks about what's possible with connected vehicle data. The Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Motorq lives for those moments. The FDE is a technical generalist and customer-facing engineer who operates across both new business and existing accounts. On the sales side, you partner with Account Executives to demonstrate Motorq's platform compellingly, run technical discovery, and build custom prototypes that bring prospective customers' specific use cases to life. On the customer side, you work alongside Strategic Customer Executives and the Customer Success team to drive deep product adoption, lead technical workshops, and evangelize Motorq's full capabilities — including our growing AI and agentic product layer — to users and technical stakeholders within our most important accounts. This role requires a rare combination: the technical depth to build and demonstrate real solutions, the communication skills to explain complex ideas to non-technical audiences, and the customer empathy to understand what someone actually needs before proposing how to solve it. You will travel regularly to be present where it matters most — at customer sites, workshops, and industry events.