Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, Forward Networks
Network Automation
$200-230k
Mathematically-accurate network modeling
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Mathematically-accurate network modeling
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-230k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To transform networks to be agile, predictable, and secure.
Role
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
Desirable
- 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
Our take
The rapid flow of data from inside and outside organisations has rendered top-down planning difficult, and often ineffective, especially in an enterprise network setting. Forward Networks provides a solution by creating digital twins of a company's network architecture so planners and developers can see how their activities will affect operations across the entire network.
Although digital twinning is relatively new, there is already intense competition for this space. Forward Networks has carved out a unique niche in focusing on enterprise networks rather than the organisation as a whole, a focus which is needed given the complexity of modern hybrid networks which can span several cloud environments.
In 2023, Forward Networks completed a Series D funding round led by MSD Partners, with participation from Goldman Sachs, one of its long-term customers. This investment has supported the business in further developing its product, expand the services available to its customers, and scaling its core team.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
95% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2023
$50m
SERIES D
Oct 2019
$35m
SERIES C
Total funding: $112.5m
Company 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.
Company HQ
Santa Clara, CA
Leadership
David Erickson
(Co-Founder & CEO)Was Director of Course Content and Instructor at SDN Academy, a Graduate Research Assistant at Stanford University and Member of Technical Staff at big switch networks.
Brandon Heller
(Co-Founder & CTO)Was Director of Course Content and Instructor at SDN Academy. Prior to that, they interned at Google, Hewlett-Packard and Emerson Motor Company.
Nikhil Handigol
(Co-Founder & Chief AI Officer)Was Director of Course Content and Instructor at SDN Academy, as well as a Member of Technical Staff at ON.Lab and Research Assistant at Stanford University.
Peyman Kazemian
(Co-Founder)Was Director of Course Content and Instructor at SDN Academy, and a Researcher and Teaching Assistant at Stanford University. Also in terned at Google and Ericsson.
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