Forward Deployed Engineer

twentyAI; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work in Austin

Travel to clients

Job summary

twentyAI is seeking a customer-facing engineer in Austin, TX with 1–2 years of experience to work closely with client teams. You will understand client processes, define architectures, and build AI agents, workflows and data pipelines on our platform.

You will travel to client sites and collaborate with both technical and business stakeholders, contributing to product direction and enterprise-scale deployments early in your career.

Qualifications

• 1–2 years of engineering/FDE experience.
• Computer Science or relevant technical degree.
• Solid fundamentals in data structures, algorithms and system design.
• Comfortable working across APIs, databases and data flows.
• Enjoy bringing structure to messy, ambiguous problems.
• Willing to travel regularly and talk to technical and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Work with customers to understand their processes, legacy systems and success metrics.
• Turn loosely defined problems into architectures and production systems.
• Build AI agents, workflows, integrations and data pipelines on the company’s platform.
• Take deployments learnings back to the product team to shape future features.

Skills

Engineering experience

APIs

Databases

System design

Communication

Willing to travel

Education

CS degree

Tools

LLMs

React

Job description

Hybrid in Austin, TX + travel to clients

About the Company

A Series B AI platform that helps large enterprises such as banks and telecoms get stalled AI projects into production. It brings AI agents, workflow automation, data and app building together in one place.

About the Role

This is a customer-facing engineering role for someone with 1-2 years of experience who wants to work close to real business problems. You’ll embed with customer teams, learn how their operations actually run, and build the AI systems that make a measurable difference.

What You’ll Do

• Work with customers to understand their processes, legacy systems and what success looks like
• Turn loosely defined problems into clear architectures and working production systems
• Build AI agents, workflows, integrations and data pipelines on the company’s platform
• Take what you learn from deployments back to the product team to shape what gets built next

Requirements

• 1-2 years of engineering/FDE experience
• Computer Science or relevant technical degree
• Solid fundamentals in data structures, algorithms and system design
• Are comfortable working across APIs, databases and data flows
• Enjoy bringing structure to messy, ambiguous problems
• Are happy talking to both technical and business stakeholders, and travelling regularly

Nice to Have

Experience with LLMs, RAG, AI agents, workflow automation or React.

Why Join?

• Own projects from the first discovery call through to production
• Hands-on AI work at real enterprise scale, early in your career
• A rare mix of engineering, product and customer exposure in one role
• A direct influence on the core product

Please note: Unable to offer sponsorship at this time, you must be authorised to work in the US.