Forward Deployed Engineer
Core
Build AI agents and search integrations for enterprise customers, taking them from discovery to production deployment and handoff.
Role type
Senior IC Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Agents & Search)
Builds
Production AI agent workflows and search integrations for enterprise clients
Domain
Enterprise AI, Web Search, LLM Orchestration
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Python, TypeScript, LLM-powered application development, LLM evaluation design, Agent tooling (MCP/function calling), Customer-facing technical delivery
Preferred skills
Retrieval and RAG (hybrid search, reranking), LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Snowflake/Databricks, Web scraping/structured extraction
Technologies
Python, TypeScript, MCP, LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, Snowflake, Databricks
Responsibilities
Design and implement customer-specific AI agent workflows; Define evaluation sets and success criteria with customers; Write orchestration code for production stability; Train customer engineers and hand off accounts; Shape the FDE function strategy and playbook
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
