Forward-Deployed AI Engineer for Real-World Impact

Trase; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career growth

Health coverage

Parental leave

Unlimited PTO

Professional development

Equity options

Mental health benefits

Job summary

Trase is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers to build and deploy AI agents and applications using Trase OS. You’ll join Leagues, supporting customers in healthcare, government, education, financial services, or retail.

This hands-on engineering role involves working with customers to turn workflow needs into production-grade solutions. We hire at Mid, Senior and Staff levels; compensation reflects depth and scope of ownership.

Qualifications

• Production software development experience with strong coding, testing, debugging, and API design.
• Proficiency in Python, Java or TypeScript; experience with databases, backend services, and external integrations.
• Cloud infrastructure, containers, CI/CD, and monitoring experience.
• Ability to translate customer needs into actionable work and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Practical understanding of LLM applications or AI agents, including their limitations, evaluation, and safe interaction with customer data and systems.
• Ownership of delivery and quality; curiosity about customer operations.

Responsibilities

• Map workflows with customers to identify useful AI applications and define scope, success metrics, and acceptance criteria.
• Build production-quality agents, applications, APIs, and integrations using Trase OS and backend services.
• Integrate customer systems, data sources, and identity providers; deploy in customer or Trase-managed environments.
• Own delivery through testing, deployment, customer validation, and operational handoff; surface dependencies and risks early.
• Develop evaluations, automated tests, observability, and human review or escalation into agent workflows.
• Apply access controls and data-handling policies in partnership with Security and customer teams.
• Debug production issues across application, data, integration, and infrastructure layers; create runbooks.
• Contribute reusable components and provide feedback to Origin and Arena; focus on platform improvements.

Skills

Python

Java

TypeScript

APIs

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

LLM applications

Communication with stakeholders

Tools

Databases

Backend services

External integrations

Job description

Trase is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers to build and deploy AI agents and applications using Trase OS. You’ll join Leagues, supporting customers in healthcare, government, education, financial services, or retail.

This hands-on engineering role involves working with customers to turn workflow needs into production-grade solutions. We hire at Mid, Senior and Staff levels; compensation reflects depth and scope of ownership.