Forward Deployed Engineer
Hybrid (Palo Alto)Full-timePosted 3d ago
About the role
Applied AI role focused on engineering in customer environments, delivering end-to-end production solutions for enterprise workflows and agent-based tooling.
Responsibilities
- Turn ambiguous enterprise problems into clear technical designs, working software, and measurable outcomes.
- Build product surfaces for agent conversations, tasks, progress, approvals, artifacts, and operational workflows.
- Design APIs and relational data models that accurately represent the customer’s domain and remain understandable as the product evolves.
- Build agent instructions, tool interfaces, connector interactions, and durable workflow steps with explicit permission and failure behavior.
- Navigate enterprise requirements around authentication, authorization, tenant isolation, data handling, deployment, observability, and change management.
- Test realistic user journeys rather than stopping at isolated units or happy-path demos.
- Travel to customer sites when working alongside users will accelerate discovery, delivery, or adoption.
Qualifications
- 5-12 years of software engineering experience
- Strong software fundamentals across product design, APIs, data modeling, distributed systems, testing, and production debugging
- Evidence that you personally shipped and operated meaningful software
- Product judgment to differentiate reusable vs customer-specific work
- Comfort across UI, backend, data, agent behavior, integrations, and deployment
- Security-minded approach to enterprise data, permissions, credentials, approvals, and auditability
- AI-native mindset using coding agents and modern models while owning architecture and code understanding
- Clear communication and high EQ to work with CTOs, operators, security teams, and engineers
- Comfort with startup ambiguity, fast feedback loops, broad ownership, and regular customer travel
Skills
Required:Software engineeringSystem designAPI designSecurity and compliance
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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