Forward Deployed Engineer (New York)
Forward Deployed Engineer at TribalScale embedding with clients to design, prototype, and ship production AI-enabled applications — building agent harnesses, agent loops, orchestration graphs, evaluation frameworks, and observability, while working across the full stack in Python/TypeScript, cloud platforms, and modern delivery practices.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Remote USA
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Solutions engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Professional experience building and deploying production-grade software, ideally AI-powered or agentic systems
- Strong proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or a similar AI-application language
- Practical understanding of harness engineering (infrastructure, context, tools, permissions, controls, feedback)
- Experience building or working with agent loops (planning, tool selection, execution, reflection, recovery)
- Familiarity with graph-based orchestration, state machines, and multi-step workflows
- Experience designing evaluation systems for AI applications
- Understanding of trade-offs in prompts, context management, memory, retrieval, tool use, and model selection
- Experience instrumenting AI systems to trace decisions, inspect states, and diagnose failures
- Strong knowledge of APIs, distributed systems, databases, cloud infrastructure, and modern development practices
- Ability to quickly understand unfamiliar systems, technologies, and business domains; comfort in fast-moving environments
- Ability to move ambiguous customer problems to validated prototypes and secure, maintainable production systems
- Strong product judgment balancing capability, reliability, latency, cost, security, and UX
- Experience collaborating directly with customers, stakeholders, or cross-functional delivery teams
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- High degree of ownership, curiosity, empathy, and bias toward action
- Ability to travel occasionally for client workshops or on-site delivery
Nice to have
- Experience with agent frameworks, coding agents, and harness-driven agentic AI development
- Experience creating tool interfaces, execution sandboxes, permission models, and human-in-the-loop controls
- Familiarity with RAG, embeddings, vector search, knowledge graphs, fine-tuning, and model routing
- Experience evaluating AI systems with golden datasets, simulators, adversarial testing, and online experiments
- Familiarity with AI observability (traces, token/cost analysis, latency, failure classification, quality dashboards)
- Experience building systems that use multiple models or specialized agents
- Understanding of AI security concerns (prompt injection, data leakage, excessive agency, insecure tool use)
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Experience with containers, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD tooling
- Contributions to AI infrastructure, evaluation tooling, or agent-framework open-source projects
- Experience in regulated or complex enterprise environments
- Experience in consulting, professional services, solutions engineering, or customer-facing technical roles
- History of taking products from discovery through production launch and adoption
- Claude Certified Architect certification (Foundations or Professional) or equivalent
Full description
Shape the Future with TribalScale
TribalScale is a digital innovation firm that helps organizations adapt and thrive in a rapidly changing world. We partner with clients to build transformative digital products, modernize technology platforms, and apply emerging technologies—including artificial intelligence—to meaningful business challenges.
Our teams work closely with clients from strategy through execution. We value curiosity, ownership, practical innovation, and people who are comfortable turning ambiguity into action.
Our Digital Expertise
- Transformation Experts: We transform traditional business models into agile, AI-powered ecosystems.
- Strategic Visionaries: We navigate the uncharted waters of technological evolution.
- Product Virtuosos: We orchestrate the creation of world-class digital solutions.
- Code Optimizers: We leverage AI to refine and perfect digital systems.
Our Technological Toolkit
- Mobile & Web Development: (iOS, Android, React Native, React, Node.js)
- Voice-Activated Platforms: (Amazon Alexa, Google Home)
- Connected Ecosystems: (Cars and Homes)
- Streaming Platforms: (Roku, Fire TV, Android TV, tvOS)
The TribalScale Professional
You thrive in challenging environments where innovation is key. Your passion for technology is matched only by your drive to redefine its limits. You seek more than a job; you seek a calling—a chance to make a lasting impact on the digital landscape.
The Opportunity
TribalScale is looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to work at the intersection of software engineering, artificial intelligence, product development, and client delivery.
In this role, you will embed with client and internal teams to understand complex business problems, rapidly design solutions, and deploy production-quality software in real-world environments. You will operate as both a hands-on engineer and a trusted technical partner—translating business needs into working products while helping clients make sound technology decisions.
You will be expected to understand more than models and prompts. You will help design the systems around AI models: the harnesses, agent loops, state graphs, tools, context, evaluations, observability, permissions, and human controls required to make AI applications useful and reliable in production.
This role is ideal for an adaptable engineer who enjoys direct customer interaction, can move comfortably between discovery and delivery, and wants to see their work create immediate, measurable impact.