Enterprise AI Engineer — Remote, Client‑Facing

Tela; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Tela is seeking a hands-on Forward Deployed Engineer to design and ship production software, AI-agent workflows, integrations, and automations for demanding enterprise clients. You will translate business processes into reliable systems and create reusable patterns for future delivery.

Strong TypeScript skills, clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders, and willingness to travel for on-site client work are required in this remote-first role.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience shipping production software.
• Strong TypeScript skills and the ability to design maintainable, scalable systems that are practical to operate.
• Ability to understand a business process and translate it into reliable software.
• Sound judgment when balancing delivery speed, quality, scope, architecture, and business value.
• Clear communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Working proficiency in Portuguese and English, plus willingness to travel when in-person client work materially improves the outcome.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy production AI-agent workflows, integrations, automations, and supporting internal tools.
• Work closely with clients to understand their systems, constraints, processes, and desired outcomes.
• Make architecture, scope, reliability, timeline, and business-impact trade-offs visible to both clients and internal teams.
• Adapt reusable products to new deployments and continue improving solutions after launch as models, workflows, and requirements change.
• Measure results using operational outcomes such as cycle time, cost, quality, risk reduction, and capacity released.
• Feed lessons from client work back into product and engineering while creating abstractions that make future delivery faster and more robust.

Skills

TypeScript

Business process understanding

Clear communication

Travel willingness

Portuguese

English

Job description

Tela is seeking a hands-on Forward Deployed Engineer to design and ship production software, AI-agent workflows, integrations, and automations for demanding enterprise clients. You will translate business processes into reliable systems and create reusable patterns for future delivery.

Strong TypeScript skills, clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders, and willingness to travel for on-site client work are required in this remote-first role.