Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise

Tavily; Greater London; On-site; GBP 113,000 - 159,000; Full time

Job summary

Tavily is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise, to work with our largest customers from our New York office. You will design, prototype, and deploy production-grade AI systems powered by Tavily's API, owning the technical relationship across the customer lifecycle.

You’ll build RAG pipelines and agent workflows, create reference architectures, and deliver integrated solutions while bridging field needs with Product and Engineering roadmaps.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with customer-facing roles
• Strong hands-on engineering with Python, APIs, and backend systems
• Experience building with LLMs and Retrieval-Augmented Generation
• Experience working with enterprise customers through discovery, POCs, and rollout
• High autonomy and ability to communicate with technical and executive stakeholders
• Comfort in a fast-moving startup environment and ownership mentality

Responsibilities

• Work directly with enterprise customers to understand AI use cases and deployment requirements
• Lead technical discovery and solution design during pre-sales and expansion conversations
• Scope, build, and deliver proofs of concept demonstrating business and technical value
• Design and implement production-ready integrations using Tavily's API
• Collaborate with customer engineering, data, product, and AI teams to move use cases to production
• Monitor API usage and propose improvements for reliability and latency

Skills

Python

APIs

Backend systems

LLMs

RAG pipelines

Agent architectures

Context engineering

Production software development

Enterprise communication

Stakeholder management

Tools

Tavily API

LLM integrations

Job description

The Team

Forward Deployed Engineering owns how Tavily shows up technically in the field. The team sits at the intersection of customers, Product, Engineering, Sales, Partnerships, and Customer Success.

The Enterprise FDE motion focuses on Tavily's highest-value customers and strategic enterprise opportunities - from technical discovery and solution design through proof of concept, production rollout, adoption, and expansion.

The role

This is a full-time, on-site role based in our New York office.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise, you'll work directly with Tavily's largest and most strategic customers to design, prototype, and deploy production-grade AI systems powered by Tavily's API. You'll own the technical relationship across the customer lifecycle, helping enterprise teams move from early use case exploration to deployed, scalable agentic applications.

You'll be deeply hands-on: building RAG pipelines, agent workflows, evaluation loops, reference architectures, and custom integrations alongside customer teams. You'll also serve as a critical bridge between the field and our Product and Engineering teams, translating enterprise needs into roadmap signal.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Work directly with enterprise customers to understand their AI use cases, technical architecture, success criteria, and deployment requirements.
• Lead technical discovery and solution design during pre-sales and expansion conversations.
• Scope, build, and deliver proofs of concept that demonstrate clear business and technical value.
• Design and implement production-ready integrations using Tavily's API, including RAG pipelines, agent workflows, internal tools, and industry-specific GenAI applications.
• Partner with customer engineering, data, product, and AI teams to move use cases from prototype to production.
• Monitor customer API usage patterns and recommend improvements to increase reliability, latency, coverage, and overall value.
• Translate recurring customer needs, blockers, and technical patterns into clear product and roadmap input.
• Create reusable enterprise assets, including reference architectures, integration templates, deployment guides, demo environments, and technical documentation.
• Represent Tavily in customer architecture reviews, executive technical conversations, implementation check-ins, and post-deployment reviews.
• Partner closely with Sales, Customer Success, Product, and Engineering to drive adoption, retention, and expansion across strategic accounts.

We expect you to have:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in a customer-facing technical role such as Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Architect, Solutions Engineer, Sales Engineer, or Technical Consultant.
• Strong hands-on engineering ability, especially with Python, APIs, backend systems, and production software development.
• Experience building with LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, agent architectures, context engineering, and modern AI application stacks.
• Experience working with enterprise customers, including technical discovery, POCs, solution design, stakeholder management, and production rollout.
• Strong understanding of how enterprises evaluate, deploy, secure, and scale AI systems.
• Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and executive stakeholders, including engineering leaders, product teams, AI teams, and technical decision-makers.
• High autonomy, strong ownership, and comfort operating in a fast-moving startup environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the