Forward-Deployed AI Agent Engineer

Acacia Consulting; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Acacia Consulting is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to design and build AI agents for customers across industries. You’ll work directly with clients to translate challenges into deployable solutions and collaborate with our research team to push deterministic reasoning in agentic models.

You’ll own end-to-end deployments, test against edge cases, and create reusable tooling to accelerate future projects.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as a software engineer shipping production systems.
• Strong Python skills and familiarity with modern AI agent development.
• Previous experience in a customer-facing technical role.

Responsibilities

• Design and build AI agents for customers across finance, healthcare, legal, operations, and more—tailored to their specific domain requirements.
• Work with the research team to expand our models' reasoning capabilities and add new domains of expertise.
• Partner directly with customers to iterate on implementations, gathering feedback that shapes our platform roadmap.
• Build robust evaluation frameworks to rigorously test agent performance and reliability across edge cases.
• Create reusable patterns and tools that make it easier to deploy agents in new domains.

Skills

Python

AI agent development

Customer-facing experience

Job description

Acacia Consulting is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to design and build AI agents for customers across industries. You’ll work directly with clients to translate challenges into deployable solutions and collaborate with our research team to push deterministic reasoning in agentic models.

You’ll own end-to-end deployments, test against edge cases, and create reusable tooling to accelerate future projects.