Client-Facing AI Engineer & Production Architect

tenexlabs

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 260,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

Tenex is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to design, write, test, and deploy production software while working directly with customers in the New York area. You will collaborate with AI Strategists, own technical delivery for your workstream, and influence architecture, testing, and production readiness.

Expect a fast-paced, client-facing environment with equity and bonus opportunities. The role requires building with LLMs, deploying solutions, and guiding clients through technical tradeoffs

Qualifications

  • You’ve built and shipped production software that users depended on.
  • You can make sound decisions about architecture, testing, reliability, and maintainability.
  • You’ve built with LLMs and can explain how you evaluated and improved their performance.
  • You use coding agents and understand how to review and validate their output.
  • You’re comfortable working directly with customers, asking questions, and explaining technical decisions.
  • You can learn an unfamiliar business and turn its requirements into working software.
  • You take responsibility for delivery and communicate early when something needs to change.

Responsibilities

  • Work with customers to understand their workflows, existing systems, and technical requirements.
  • Partner with an AI Strategist to define scope, priorities, and acceptance criteria.
  • Design system architecture and make build-versus-buy decisions.
  • Write and review production code, build integrations, and implement AI agents and workflows.
  • Build evaluations, tests, monitoring, and controls so the system can operate reliably.
  • Explain technical options and tradeoffs directly to customers.
  • Deploy, troubleshoot, and improve the software after launch.

Skills

Production software delivery
Architecture decisions
LLMs experience
Agent orchestration
Customer communication
Requirements gathering
Delivery ownership

Tools

Agent platforms

Job description

Tenex is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to design, write, test, and deploy production software while working directly with customers in the New York area. You will collaborate with AI Strategists, own technical delivery for your workstream, and influence architecture, testing, and production readiness.

Expect a fast-paced, client-facing environment with equity and bonus opportunities. The role requires building with LLMs, deploying solutions, and guiding clients through technical tradeoffs

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