Agent Engineer: AI-Driven Client Deployments

Profound; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Profound is seeking an Agent Engineer to work directly with customers who have purchased Profound’s Agents product, deploying it to drive real business outcomes. You will design agent-based use cases, prototype solutions, and own deployments end-to-end in a fast-paced, customer-embedded role.

This role sits at the intersection of customer success, strategy, and technical implementation, requiring collaboration with engineering when needed and a strong appreciation for measurable impact and

Qualifications

• Experience in client-facing roles such as consulting, solutions, strategy, implementation, or customer success.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and early-stage products.
• Strong problem-framing skills, with the ability to turn vague goals into concrete plans.
• Technical fluency without being a full-time engineer, including experience building with low-code or no-code tools, workflows, scripts, or APIs.
• Hands-on experimentation with AI tools, agents, or automation systems.
• Clear communicator who can translate effectively between customers and engineers.
• Enjoy being embedded with customers and owning outcomes end to end.
• Backgrounds such as strategy consultants with technical projects, solutions architects, forward-deployed engineers, or operators who have built scrappy internal tools are a strong fit.
• Experience with tools like Cursor or Claude Code is helpful but not required.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with customers to understand their goals, workflows, and AI visibility challenges
• Translate ambiguous customer needs into concrete, agent-based use cases that deliver measurable business impact
• Identify what should be built and why before focusing on how it should be implemented
• Design agents such as AI visibility and competitor-ranking alerts, content gap identification workflows, content drafting workflows informed by AI visibility data, and agents that crawl and analyze existing content for optimization opportunities
• Configure and build agents using Profound’s workflow platform by connecting nodes, APIs, data sources, and outputs
• Rapidly prototype and deploy solutions directly with customers in a forward-deployed model
• Own deployments end to end where possible, and clearly scope and hand off work to engineering when requirements exceed your technical depth
• Serve as the primary post-sale partner for Agents customers during deployment
• Turn successful customer deployments into repeatable patterns and internal best practices
• Provide feedback to Product and Engineering on gaps, friction points, and roadmap priorities surfaced through customer work

Skills

Client-facing experience

Ambiguity tolerance

Problem framing

Low-code/no-code tools

APIs/workflows

Clear communicator

Embedded with customers

Strategy consulting background

Cursor/Claude Code familiarity

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

Job description

Profound is seeking an Agent Engineer to work directly with customers who have purchased Profound’s Agents product, deploying it to drive real business outcomes. You will design agent-based use cases, prototype solutions, and own deployments end-to-end in a fast-paced, customer-embedded role.

This role sits at the intersection of customer success, strategy, and technical implementation, requiring collaboration with engineering when needed and a strong appreciation for measurable impact and