Enterprise AI Deployment Engineer

Stealth AI Startup; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid vacation

Paid sick leave

Paid parental leave

Professional development budget

Choice of laptop and accessories

Health, dental, vision coverage

Job summary

Stealth AI Startup is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to own the technical side of customer GTM, running POCs and troubleshooting integrations for enterprise clients. You will engage directly with senior engineers to drive deployment success and ensure live customer outcomes.

Role requires hands-on production coding, AI agent experience, and deep knowledge of identity, security, and deployment architectures. Hybrid work and strong equity opportunities are part of the package.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of forward-deployed engineer, solutions architect, or sales engineer experience with a CS background.
• Ability to write and debug production code independently, not just run demos.
• Hands-on experience building AI agents and discussing architecture, memory, and tool design.
• Depth in identity/auth, MCP, agent frameworks, security, deployment, networking, or observability.
• AI-native workflow; uses AI to build, not just to prompt.
• Executive presence to lead senior technical executives in the room.
• High ownership and accountability to ensure delivery of solutions.
• Experience at a high-growth B2B startup in a forward-deployed role or pre-sales.
• Open-source contributions or published content in agent, identity, or policy spaces.
• Experience as a FDE at Palantir is a plus.
• Competitive salary and equity are expected.
• Paid vacation, paid sick leave, and paid parental leave.
• Professional development budget for conferences, courses, and certifications.
• Choice of laptop and accessories.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.

Responsibilities

• Own POC outcomes for enterprise customers.
• Run pre-sales technical deep dives, demos, and architecture discussions.
• Troubleshoot integrations across customer environments, including identity, security, and networking.
• Build custom configurations and one-off solutions when the standard path does not fit.
• Run technical onboarding sessions and adoption workshops.
• Be the technical expert in the room during sales cycles, handling hard questions from senior engineers.

Skills

Enterprise pre-sales

Solution architecture

Production coding

AI agent development

Security & identity

Education

Computer Science degree

Tools

AI agent frameworks

Security tooling

Job description

Stealth AI Startup is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to own the technical side of customer GTM, running POCs and troubleshooting integrations for enterprise clients. You will engage directly with senior engineers to drive deployment success and ensure live customer outcomes.

Role requires hands-on production coding, AI agent experience, and deep knowledge of identity, security, and deployment architectures. Hybrid work and strong equity opportunities are part of the package.