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Forward Deployed Engineer

Tavily· Engineering
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New York CityFull timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Full-time, on-site engineering role based in New York City focused on designing, prototyping, and deploying integrations of Tavily’s API with real-world agentic systems, spanning pre-sales to post-deployment success and building RAG pipelines and production-grade GenAI use cases.

Responsibilities

  • Work directly with customers to understand their use cases and build custom integrations using Tavily’s API.
  • Participate in pre-sales efforts, including sales calls, technical discovery, and proof-of-concept scoping.
  • Design and implement prototypes, proofs of concept, and production-ready systems alongside client teams.
  • Monitor API usage patterns and recommend improvements to increase reliability, efficiency, and coverage.
  • Collaborate with internal teams to influence roadmap priorities based on customer needs and recurring technical challenges.
  • Build reusable technical content including documentation, reference architectures, internal tools, and templates to scale future deployments.
  • Represent Tavily in customer conversations, architecture reviews, post-deployment tracking, and partner-facing technical engagements.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in a customer-facing, consulting, or partner-focused role at a large company (e.g., Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer).
  • Obsession with AI ecosystem - strong engineering skills and experience working with the modern agent stack.
  • Deep understanding of agent architectures, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), LLMs, context engineering, and .
  • Strong interpersonal skills and comfort working directly with technical stakeholders at enterprises and partners.
  • Fast learner, highly autonomous, and excited to work in a fast-paced startup environment.
  • Based in New York City, Austin, SF, or willing to relocate.

Skills

Required:API integrationPrototype and production-ready development
Nice to have:Pre-sales support
Last updated Jun 5, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Tavily is the real‑time search engine for AI agents and RAG workflows — Fast and secure APIs for web search and content extraction. Trusted by 600K+ developers.

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