Forward-Deployed AI Engineer (Remote)

redcellpartners; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Red Cell Partners is launching a stealth startup focused on AI for mission-critical environments in healthcare, government, and regulated industries. We seek a forward deployed engineer to work directly with enterprise customers, designing and deploying production-grade AI agents within customer environments.

You will own end-to-end technical lifecycle—from problem definition and data pipelines to evaluation, deployment, and measurable improvement—travel to customer sites as needed, all while

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience shipping AI applications in production environments.
• Strong understanding of AI agent architectures and evaluation methodologies.
• Experience developing scalable backend services, APIs, data pipelines, and system integrations.
• Ability to design evaluation systems and use performance data to guide technical iteration.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with enterprise customer teams to understand their businesses, operating environments, and workflows.
• Translate real operational needs into clearly defined, AI-driven solutions.
• Own the end-to-end design, development, deployment, and improvement of production-grade AI agents tailored to customer-specific problems.
• Build the data pipelines, integrations, and supporting systems required to deploy AI solutions within customer environments.
• Develop evaluation systems that measure agent performance and use the results to drive continued improvement.
• Translate complex business requirements into technical architectures, implementation plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Develop deep expertise in customer domains and apply that knowledge to improve the relevance and performance of the AI systems you build.
• Partner closely with Product, Platform, Research, and Engineering teams to deliver reliable, cohesive solutions.
• Identify and codify reusable engineering practices, agent patterns, and technical frameworks that can support future deployments.
• Translate lessons from customer deployments into actionable feedback for platform and product teams.
• Diagnose technical and operational challenges in customer environments and drive issues through resolution.
• Communicate technical decisions, progress, risks, and results clearly to customer stakeholders and internal teams.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Backend development

AI applications

AI agent architectures

Data pipelines

Tools

APIs

Data pipelines

System integrations

Job description

Red Cell Partners is launching a stealth startup focused on AI for mission-critical environments in healthcare, government, and regulated industries. We seek a forward deployed engineer to work directly with enterprise customers, designing and deploying production-grade AI agents within customer environments.

You will own end-to-end technical lifecycle—from problem definition and data pipelines to evaluation, deployment, and measurable improvement—travel to customer sites as needed, all while