Forward-Deployed AI Product Engineer

Talanto; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Vision & Dental benefits

Life Insurance

401k

Learning stipend

Commuter benefits

Remote office home stipend

Daily catered lunches

Onboarding trip to HQ

Annual company offsites

Job summary

Talanto is hiring a Forward Deployed Product Engineer to deploy production AI agents for large logistics customers. You will work with customer operators, engineers, and executives to design integrations, debug production systems, and deliver AI-powered workflows in complex environments.

You will own deployments end-to-end, from discovery to production stability, spending time with customers both remotely and onsite to solve operational problems and develop reusable product capabilities.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of experience building and owning production systems in high-growth startups or similarly demanding environments.
• Strong experience with APIs, integrations, authentication systems, and event-driven architectures.
• Proven ability to debug complex production systems.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments where documentation is incomplete, and requirements evolve quickly.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to build trust with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working directly with customers is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Reverse engineer undocumented APIs, ERPs, TMS platforms, and internal tools with minimal guidance.
• Design and build integrations between customer systems and the AI platform.
• Debug production failures across distributed systems, authentication layers, data pipelines, and third-party services.
• Work onsite with customers to diagnose issues, ship fixes, and drive successful launches.
• Own customer deployments end-to-end, from technical discovery through production stability.
• Make pragmatic engineering tradeoffs under real-world constraints and tight timelines.
• Identify recurring implementation patterns and turn them into reusable product capabilities.
• Partner closely with engineering and product teams to shape the roadmap based on customer needs.

Skills

APIs & integrations

Authentication systems

Event-driven architecture

Production debugging

Customer interaction

Node.js & TypeScript

GCP

LLMs: OpenAI/Anthropic/Google

Next.js/React/TypeScript

Datadog observability

Tools

Datadog

Vertex AI

Job description

Talanto is hiring a Forward Deployed Product Engineer to deploy production AI agents for large logistics customers. You will work with customer operators, engineers, and executives to design integrations, debug production systems, and deliver AI-powered workflows in complex environments.

You will own deployments end-to-end, from discovery to production stability, spending time with customers both remotely and onsite to solve operational problems and develop reusable product capabilities.