Lead Forward Deployment Engineer

Role Overview

• Design and manage AI-assisted development workflows that improve engineering productivity, code quality, documentation, prototype quality, and delivery speed.
• Work close to the U.S. market, customers, sales teams, and field feedback to identify real product needs, clarify technical requirements, and translate business opportunities into actionable product and engineering direction.
• Support testing and validation of ASUS router products across different U.S. Internet Service Provider environments.
• Take ownership of product development from early concept and proof-of-concept through high-fidelity prototypes, technical validation, and production handoff.
• Build, test, and iterate quickly using a build-measure-learn approach.
• Create practical and innovative product concepts based on user-centered design methods, customer insights, market needs, and technical feasibility.
• Work on technical challenges involving hardware-software integration, firmware, web UI, mobile applications, cloud services, networking products, and connected-device ecosystems.
• Partner with product, design, sales, marketing, and engineering stakeholders to clarify requirements, user flows, edge cases, technical constraints, market expectations, and implementation priorities.
• Align product concepts, business needs, user insights, technical feasibility, and resource requirements across departments.
• Build trust and improve communication between Taiwan-based development teams and U.S. sales, marketing, customer-facing, and product teams.
• Research and introduce emerging AI development tools, automation methods, CI/CD practices, and engineering workflows that improve team efficiency, product clarity, validation quality, and development speed.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent practical experience in Human-Computer Interaction, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Product Design, Human Factors, or a related technical/product discipline.
• 10+ years of relevant professional experience in product development, product engineering, hardware-software integration, networking or connected-device products, cross-functional product development, AI-assisted development, or related fields.
• Proven experience working across hardware, software, firmware, web UI, mobile applications, cloud services, or connected-device ecosystems.
• Proven experience creating creative product concepts based on user-centered design, customer insights, market needs, and technical feasibility.
• Proven experience communicating product concepts, technical tradeoffs, market opportunities, and resource needs to senior leadership or executive stakeholders.
• Strong ability to translate market needs, customer feedback, and product ideas into clear technical and product requirements.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams across product, engineering, UX, sales, marketing, QA, business, and external partners.
• Strong iterative mindset with the ability to prototype, test, learn, refine, and move quickly from concept to validation.
• Strong Mandarin-English communication capability is strongly preferred, especially for collaboration between Taiwan-based development teams and U.S. sales or market-facing teams.

Tech Stack

• Cloud

Benefits

• bonuses
• medical
• dental
• vision
• life insurance
• AD&D insurance
• Paid Time Off
• EAP
• 401(k)