Forward Deployed Engineer

Everyone's talking about AI. But here's the truth:
ChatGPT can't send your emails. It can't book your flights. It can't even order you lunch.
Why? Because AI is trapped in a chat box. It can't take real actions in the real world.

Every AI app needs agentic "tools" - special functions that let AI models take real actions. Without tools, AI can only chat. With tools, AI can actually do things. We're building the definitive tools catalog and tool-calling platform that will unlock AI's true potential. Think Zapier for AI actions. Think Auth0 for AI. Think really big.

Why This Is The Opportunity of a Lifetime

• Leadership-Market Fit :
  Our CEO previously founded Stormpath (acquired by Okta), our CTO led the vector database team at Redis and is a contributor to Lang Chain and Llama Index, and our CRO, Ben Sabrin, was the founding VP of Sales at MongoDB (scaled 0–$60M) and an early leader at JBoss and Okta.
• Dream Team :
  We've assembled authentication, integrations, distributed systems, and AI experts from Okta, Redis, Microsoft, Splunk, Ngrok, Google, Airbyte, and HPE who ve built and scaled multiple successful developer platforms.
• Perfect Timing :
  We're at the inflection point of AI adoption. The biggest problem isn't better models - it's connecting AI to real-world actions. That's us.
• Massive Market :
  We're building critical infrastructure for the biggest technological shift of our generation. Every AI app will need what we're building.
• Backed By The Best:
  Our investors have backed Databricks, Clickhouse, MongoDB, Perplexity, Cohere, ScaleAI, Confluent, Elastic, and Firebase. They see what we see - this is going to be huge.

We need Forward Deployed Engineers who are deeply technical, incredibly articulate, and possess an insatiable curiosity for what’s possible. You aren't just giving demos; you are a systems thinker who can walk into a Fortune 500 customer and understand their entire technology landscape - identity, data, application, and governance layers - to design architectures that survive a rigorous security review. You’ll need to stay three steps ahead of the rapidly evolving Agentic AI ecosystem, mastering LLM orchestration, autonomous agent frameworks, and the complex world of tool-calling and action-oriented infrastructure.

You won't just be a vendor; you’ll be a trusted consultant helping customers architect the transition from passive chat to active, automated intelligence.

• Act as the Technical Authority:
  Partner with AEs to lead technical discovery and evaluations with Head of AI, CTO, and Architect personas.
• Build the "Art of the Possible":
  Design and build custom prototypes, PoCs, and reference architectures that show exactly how our infrastructure enables real-world AI actions.
• Simplify the Complex:
  Take abstract infrastructure, middleware, and API concepts and turn them into clear, value-driven solutions for customers.
• Field-to-Product Loop:
  Act as the eyes and ears of the market, funneling deep technical feedback back to our Product and Engineering teams to shape the roadmap. We build our product like a private open-source project; if a feature or fix is needed to unblock a deployment, you are empowered to make it happen. You can take customer learnings to create working prototypes and systems that can eventually become part of the core platform.
• Drive Technical Wins:
  Navigate complex technical hurdles in deal cycles ranging from $200K+ to seven figures.
• Master the AI Stack:
  Stay at the bleeding edge of the ecosystem (Lang Chain, Llama Index, Vector DBs) to consult customers on their broader AI strategy.

• 3+ years of experience as a Pre-Sales/Solutions Engineer, Solutions Architect, or technical consultant who has sold highly technical infrastructure (Databases, Security, Integration, or Cloud).
• Deep Integration & Systems Architecture Fluency:
  You ve lived the reality of connecting enterprise systems in any form: iPaaS (Mule Soft, Workato, Boomi), ETL/ELT (Informatica, Fivetran, Airbyte), RPA (UiPath, Automation Anywhere), or API gateways and service mesh (Apigee, Kong, Istio). Agentic tool-calling is the next frontier of…