Forward-Deployed AI Engineer: Build & Own Production

HartleyCo

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 210,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

HartleyCo is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers in New York City. You will own architecture, implementation, deployment and client relationships, delivering production-grade AI solutions for Fortune 500 clients.

Expect hands-on work across backend, frontend, data and infrastructure, with opportunities to lead client engagements and rapidly progress to broader systems and leadership roles.

Qualifications

3–8 years of professional software engineering experience.
Strong product engineering and system design fundamentals.
Experience shipping production software end to end.
Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure.
Ability to work across multiple technical layers.
Clear communication and the confidence to work directly with customers.
Regular use of Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or similar tools.
High agency, urgency and a desire to bet on your own performance.

Responsibilities

Own the architecture, implementation, deployment and client relationship.
Lead engagements like building an agent inside a legacy platform.
Deploy AI workflows across complex environments, including hospitals and enterprises.
Ship, scale and create measurable outcomes for clients.

Skills

Software engineering

System design

Client engagement

Tools

Claude Code

Codex

Cursor

Job description

Expect hands-on work across backend, frontend, data and infrastructure, with opportunities to lead client engagements and rapidly progress to broader systems and leadership roles.

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