Senior Technical Marketing Engineer (Network Automation)

Join Forward, an early-stage company focused on network automation. As a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, you will drive adoption and understanding of our automation capabilities, collaborate with product management, design customer workflows, and create technical content. You will also enable sales and solutions teams, represent Forward at industry events, and contribute to thought leadership on network automation trends.

• Collaborate with Product Management to define and shape automation-related capabilities and use cases.
• Design and evangelize customer workflows that realize the value of automation features, including NQE, APIs, and CI/CD-driven verification.
• Develop high-quality technical collateral for internal audiences, including training materials, demo guides, and sales enablement content.

• 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
• 8+ years of experience as a Technical Marketing Engineer, Sales Engineer, Network Engineer, or similar customer-facing technical role
• Hands-on experience with network automation tooling and frameworks (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Python, REST APIs, or similar)
• Ability to work effectively across Product, Sales, and Marketing teams
• Familiarity with source control (Git), API integration, and building automation against network data models
• Strong understanding of enterprise networking concepts, including routing, switching, and network change management
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Networking, or a related field
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
• Proven ability to build and operate lab environments for demos and technical validation
• Experience with NetDevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, or infrastructure-as-code workflows applied to networking
• 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