AI Forward-Deployed Engineer: Build Real-World Multimodal Agents

Netic; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Netic is the AI revenue engine for essential services, the backbone of the American economy. The team brings frontier AI to the physical economy, where problems are hard and impact is immediate.

You’ll join a group of builders from Scale, Databricks, HRT, Meta, MIT, Stanford, and Harvard, focused on creating AI that transforms how services operate. As Forward Deployed Agent Engineers, you will design, deploy, and iterate AI systems with customers, owning the end-to-end lifecycle from design to

Qualifications

• 2+ years building and maintaining production systems with Python (asyncio) and TypeScript (Node/React).
• Hands-on experience with LLM, TTS, speech APIs, fine-tuning models, vector databases, RAG, and eval frameworks.
• Strong focus on meeting SLAs and optimizing performance at scale.
• Experience building production monitoring and debugging systems across cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Architect agents: Build and ship multi-modal AI agents that drive business impact for essential service companies.
• Co-build with customers: Work directly with enterprise stakeholders to map workflows and deploy our product to unlock immediate revenue lift.
• Own end-to-end lifecycle: Manage design to implementation to rollout, including deployment, success metrics, and customer iterations.
• Ensure scalability: Build reliable systems that support thousands of concurrent interactions with strong performance.
• Run rapid experiments: Evaluate cutting-edge text/voice models, fine-tune, A/B test live, and iterate quickly.
• Elevate the platform: Surface patterns to inform product and engineering roadmaps.

Skills

Python

FastAPI

TypeScript

Node

React

LLM

TTS

Vector databases

RAG

Evaluation frameworks

Performance

Scalability

Customer focus

Job description

Netic is the AI revenue engine for essential services who are the backbone of the American economy. With $43M in funding from Founders Fund, Greylock, Hanabi, and Dylan Field who led our Series B, we helped our customers book hundreds of thousands of jobs across services industries in North America. There are now companies operating entirely AI-first on Netic.

You’ll join our team with relentless builders from Scale, Databricks, HRT, Meta, MIT, Stanford, and Harvard in bringing frontier AI to the physical economy, where the problems are hard, the data is complex, and the impact is immediate and tangible.

Our Forward Deployed Agent Engineers are at the heart of building AI that transforms how essential services businesses operate. This role combines cutting-edge AI development with real-world impact, creating systems that handle complex business operations autonomously.

What You’ll Do:

• Architect agents: Build and ship multi-modal AI agents that drive business impact for essential service companies.

• Co‑build with customers: Work directly with enterprise stakeholders to map workflows and deploy our product to unlock immediate revenue lift.

• Own end‑to‑end lifecycle: Manage everything from design to implementation to rollout, including deployment, measuring success, and iterating with customers.

• Ensure scalability: Build reliable systems that support thousands of concurrent interactions with strong performance.

• Run rapid experiments: Evaluate cutting‑edge text/voice models, fine‑tune, A/B test live, and iterate in tight feedback loops.

• Elevate the platform: Surface patterns and opportunities across customers to inform product and engineering roadmaps.

What You’ll Bring:

• Production experience: A track record of building and maintaining production systems using Python (asyncio, FastAPI) and TypeScript (Node, React).

• AI systems expertise: Hands-on experience with LLM, TTS and speech APIs, fine-tuning models, vector databases, RAG, and evaluation frameworks.

• Performance focus: Ability to meet SLAs, resolve issues, and optimize systems for speed and reliability at scale.

• Scale mindset: Experience building production monitoring and debugging systems across cloud infrastructure and databases.

• Customer obsession: Comfortable engaging directly with customers to troubleshoot issues, understand edge cases, and deliver fast solutions.

What brings us together is our commitment to:

• Live to build

• Run through walls and win

• Obsess over customers in each line of code

• Lose sleep over the "almost perfect"

• Show internal locus of control

• Prioritize finesse: refinement of first principles thinking, execution, and craftsmanship

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.