Founding Forward Deployed Engineer; Agentic AI Systems

Forward Deployed Engineer (Agentic AI Systems)

Build production AI agents—not chatbots.

Our client is a stealth-stage AI startup building enterprise-grade autonomous agent platforms that automate complex, knowledge‑intensive business processes. Their systems reason, plan, integrate with enterprise software, maintain long‑term memory, and execute real work in production.

They're hiring a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with enterprise customers, deploying agentic AI systems into mission‑critical workflows.

If you've already shipped production AI agents and love solving difficult engineering problems alongside customers, we'd love to speak with you.

• Lead enterprise deployments from discovery through production
• Design and build agentic AI systems with tool calling, planning, memory, and human‑in‑the‑loop workflows
• Integrate with enterprise platforms including Slack, Salesforce, Service Now, SQL, Jira, SharePoint, and internal knowledge systems
• Build evaluation frameworks, monitoring, observability, and production reliability tooling
• Debug complex production failures involving LLM behavior, tool execution, and orchestration
• Work alongside the founding team to shape product strategy, architecture, and deployment best practices

• Proven experience shipping production agentic AI systems
• Hands‑on experience with tool use, planning, persistent memory/state, and workflow orchestration
• Strong Python and/or Type Script engineering skills
• Experience evaluating LLM performance using benchmarks, regression testing, or automated evaluations
• Production engineering experience including observability, logging, tracing, debugging, rollbacks, and reliability
• Experience integrating APIs and enterprise software
• Customer‑facing engineering mindset with excellent communication skills
• Able to work onsite in Chatsworth, CA

• Lang Graph
• Lang Chain
• DSPy
• CrewAI
• Auto Gen
• Temporal
• Airflow
• Open Telemetry
• RAG systems
• Security, permissions, and audit logging

• Founding engineering role with significant ownership
• Competitive salary plus meaningful equity
• Work directly with experienced founders
• Shape the future of enterprise AI infrastructure
• Solve challenging real‑world AI deployment problems—not demos

If you've built production‑ready AI agents and want to help define the future of enterprise software, we encourage you to apply.