Full Job Description
The Position
Forward Deployed Engineers sit inside the client's problem, not next to it. You embed with an enterprise team, find the work that actually warrants AI, architect the system, build it, and make it hold up in the real environment.
This is a three-way role: consultant, operator, engineer. You should be as comfortable pressure-testing a business case with a COO or VP of Engineering as you are debugging why an agent's tool-calling loop degraded after a context change. The people who succeed here can hold a discovery conversation on Monday and ship what they scoped on Thursday.
On this track, your edge is application engineering: you make agents real inside the client's actual systems, workflows, and delivery pipelines.
We work with regulated industries and Fortune 500 clients who have AI mandates, real constraints, and low tolerance for demos that don't hold up.
What We Are Looking For
Engineering foundation
- 8-10+ years of professional software development; back-end-heavy, full-stack capable.
- Primary production experience in one of our core ecosystems: TypeScript / Node + React, Python, .NET / C#, or Java.
- Strong in APIs, service design, event-driven / distributed systems, and data modeling.
- Track record as a Solution Architect, Principal Engineer, or Tech Lead - can assess a current-state environment and define a credible roadmap.
- Has designed and owned CI/CD - build, test, release, environments - not just used someone else's pipeline.
Applied AI
- Has built and shipped LLM and agent systems beyond a demo.
- Deep fluency with agentic tooling: Claude Code, agent frameworks, MCP, tool/function calling, multi-agent orchestration.
- Context and spec engineering: structures codebases, specifications, process definitions, and context to produce reliable, context-efficient AI output.
- Integration literacy: understands integration methods and options - APIs, webhooks, event streams, iPaaS (n8n, MuleSoft, etc.), MCP - and the constraints and strategies behind connecting AI to systems of record. Doesn't need to own every integration, but can design around them and guide the team that does.
Consulting & business
- Demonstrates the discovery behaviors above: business and personal drivers, constraints, stakeholder alignment, strategic questioning.
- Runs client conversations without an account manager in the room: workshops, proposal walkthroughs, hard questions, pushback.
- Translates technical decisions into business outcomes - cycle time, cost per transaction, throughput, risk reduction, ROI.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication; credible in front of senior stakeholders.
What We Offer
- Competitive Salary.
- Paid Time Off (vacation, sick leave, parental leave, holidays).
- 100% remote work.
- The ability to work with leading startups and Fortune 500 companies.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k) w/ 4% match.
- Ample opportunity for career advancement.
- Continuing education opportunities.
