Forward Deployed AI Engineer (New York)

Edra Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Edra is hiring Forward Deployed AI Engineers to build production-grade LLM-based systems for enterprise customers in New York. You will own the full technical journey—from understanding operations to shipping, adoption, and expansion—writing production code and making architectural decisions.

You should have built complex LLM-based systems with real depth, shipped production solutions, and be comfortable with open-ended problems and human-in-the-loop feedback.

Qualifications

• You've built complex, production LLM-based systems with depth across layers of engineering decisions.
• You've shipped something meaningful to production and can explain its evolution.
• You thrive on open-ended problems where solutions may not yet exist.
• You understand human-in-the-loop feedback, prompt optimization and context engineering.
• You can navigate between research papers and production code with ease.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with enterprise customers to identify problems, prototype solutions, and ship to production.
• Own engagements from discovery through production, adoption, and expansion.
• Design and implement LLM-powered systems and agentic workflows end-to-end.
• Leverage and extend the context-learning library to create reusable platform capabilities.
• Build agentic features for knowledge management and autonomous knowledge bases.
• Develop reliability and confidence systems, including evaluation frameworks and escalation logic.

Skills

LLM systems

Production code

Agentic workflows

Open-ended problems

Human-in-the-loop

Customer empathy

Job description

About Edra

Edra is solving one of the hardest problems in enterprise AI: AI models are generic but company processes are specific. We build AI agents that learn how processes actually run, and then run their operations.

We're a Series A startup, backed by Sequoia and other leading VC firms, and we're growing our team in New York and London. We're a deeply technical team of engineers, AI researchers, and strategists with a high bar for talent and a shared belief that exceptional people are the foundation of everything great we'll build.

The Role

We're building a learning system that teaches AI agents how enterprises actually work. Our system ingests knowledge bases, conversations, tickets, and system logs, then produces written instructions that agents can execute–with confidence scoring to know when to automate and when to seek human input.

We're looking for Forward Deployed AI Engineers who have built complex, production LLM-based systems, and want to work directly with our enterprise customers. Whether you've scaled LLM workflows handling millions of requests, built multi-agent systems in production, or designed evaluation frameworks for enterprise deployments, we want people who bring intensity and self-direction to their craft.

You’ll own the full technical journey: understanding how an operation works, identifying the right problem, designing and building the solution, shipping it to production, driving adoption, and expanding its impact. This is an engineering role: you’ll write production code, make architectural decisions, build agentic systems, and take responsibility for the outcome.

What You'll Do

• Work directly with enterprise customers to identify new problems, prototype solutions, and ship them to production

• Own customer engagements from discovery and solution design through production, adoption, and expansion.

• Design and implement LLM-powered systems and agentic workflows from concept to production

• Use and extend our core context-learning library to solve customer problems, contributing reusable capabilities and lessons back into the platform.

• Build agentic features for knowledge management–think agents that can edit, update, and maintain large knowledge bases autonomously

• Build reliability and confidence systems–evaluation frameworks, confidence scoring, and logic for when to automate vs. when to escalate to a human

• Architect async, scalable systems that handle complex AI orchestration

What We’re Looking For

• You've built complex, production LLM-based systems with real depth–something with multiple layers of engineering decisions you can walk through in detail

• You've shipped something meaningful to production and can explain how it evolved

• You're excited by open-ended problems where the solution might not exist yet

• You have experience with (or strong interest in) how systems learn and improve over time: human-in-the-loop feedback, prompt optimization and context engineering

• You have experience building agents and autonomous systems

• You can navigate between research papers and production code with equal comfort

• You bring customer empathy and commercial judgment, and remain effective when requirements, data, or expectations are unclear.

• You're a strong communicator who can clearly explain your work to teammates and customers

• You have 3+ years of professional experience

Don’t meet all of the above traits? We’d still love to hear from you. We’re looking for exceptional people with unique skills and interests, and we know that great people have different backgrounds and skillsets.

Learn More About Edra

• Watch our Series A announcement video

• Read our blog post from our launch

• Learn more about what we're building

A Few Details

Edra is an equal opportunity employer and we encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds. Edra does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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