Forward Deployed AI Engineer – Agent Systems

San Francisco, California | Primarily On-site

We are seeking a highly technical Forward Deployed AI Engineer – Agent Systems to build and deploy advanced agent systems for large enterprise environments.

The Opportunity -------------------

This role combines strong software engineering with applied AI research judgment. You will work directly with technically sophisticated customers while building the agent systems, data pipelines, post-training workflows, and evaluation infrastructure required for production deployments.

Key Responsibilities ------------------------

• Build and ship production agent systems for complex enterprise workflows.
• Develop data pipelines, orchestration systems, and evaluation harnesses.
• Run and analyze post-training workflows for customer-specific models and agents.
• Work directly with customer researchers and engineers.
• Evaluate whether performance issues originate in the model, environment, or evaluation framework.
• Translate customer workflows into robust, testable AI systems.
• Own technical deployments from implementation through production use.

Required Qualifications ---------------------------

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and demonstrated ability to ship production systems.
• Hands-on experience building agent systems, AI applications, or technical forward-deployed solutions.
• Ability to personally write and own production code.
• Strong understanding of evaluation, agent behavior, and production reliability.
• Ability to work across technologies and learn new stacks as required by the problem.
• Strong communication skills with technical enterprise stakeholders.

Seniority -------------

The search is open from exceptional new graduates and early-career engineers through experienced senior engineers. Technical ability and demonstrated ownership are more important than years of experience.

Work Arrangement --------------------

The team is based in San Francisco and strongly prefers in-person collaboration. Limited flexibility may be considered for exceptional candidates, particularly experienced candidates elsewhere in the United States who can spend an initial period working on site.