Forward Deployed Engineer

HIRECLOUT; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity

Early-stage ownership

Direct collaboration with leadership

Job summary

HIRECLOUT is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join a fast-growing enterprise AI initiative in the NYC area, delivering production-grade solutions in complex environments. You will lead from discovery to deployment, design integrations across AI apps, cloud platforms, and internal systems, and contribute to scalable, reliable production software with strong emphasis on testing and observability.

This early-stage engineering role offers meaningful equity, direct collaboration with company

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in CS/engineering or equivalent experience.
• Proven production software deployment experience.
• Strong Python and/or TypeScript programming skills.
• Experience building backend services and APIs.
• Hands-on AI technologies in production environments.
• Experience with cloud platforms and enterprise ecosystems.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent communication with technical and business stakeholders.
• Ability to work onsite in NYC area.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical implementations from discovery through production deployment.
• Translate complex business requirements into scalable software solutions.
• Design and build integrations between AI apps, cloud platforms, internal systems, and third-party tools.
• Develop resilient software for enterprise-scale production workloads.
• Create testing, validation, monitoring, and deployment processes for reliability.
• Troubleshoot backend services and drive permanent improvements.
• Partner with Engineering and Product to influence platform capabilities.
• Develop implementation documentation and repeatable delivery methodologies.
• Continuously improve system scalability, reliability, and customer experience.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Backend development

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Problem-solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Equivalent professional experience

Tools

REST APIs

Enterprise integrations

AI in production

Job description

Our client is a recently emerged-from-stealth AI company building some of the most ambitious technology in enterprise AI. The company has assembled an unusually strong technical team of PhDs, researchers, and engineers from organizations including OpenAI and Google Gemini, backed by prominent technology founders and investors with deep roots across AI and Silicon Valley.

And this isn't an AI company still searching for product-market fit.

Their technology is already being deployed inside multiple multi-billion-dollar enterprises, and customer demand is growing faster than the team can currently support.

They're now adding a Forward Deployed Engineer in a foundational seat to help solve one of the biggest challenges in AI today: taking the capabilities of frontier models and making them actually work, reliably and at scale, inside complex enterprises.

The company has a combination that's difficult to find: elite AI talent, prominent backing, major enterprise customers already in production, and demand that is outpacing the current team's capacity. This is an opportunity to join while the team is still small enough for individual engineers to have outsized influence — with competitive compensation, meaningful equity, and the chance to help define how frontier AI gets deployed in the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead technical implementations from discovery through successful production deployment.
• Translate complex business requirements into scalable software solutions.
• Design and build integrations between AI applications, cloud platforms, internal systems, and third-party enterprise tools.
• Develop resilient, maintainable software capable of supporting enterprise-scale production workloads.
• Create testing, validation, monitoring, and deployment processes that ensure reliability and long-term success.
• Troubleshoot issues across backend services, integrations, infrastructure, and customer environments while driving permanent improvements.
• Partner closely with Engineering and Product teams to influence future platform capabilities based on customer feedback and implementation experience.
• Develop implementation documentation, technical standards, and repeatable delivery methodologies.
• Continuously improve system scalability, reliability, performance, and customer experience.

Education & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Proven experience developing and deploying production software.
• Strong programming skills in Python and/or TypeScript.
• Experience building backend services, APIs, distributed systems, or enterprise integrations.
• Hands-on experience applying modern AI technologies within production software environments.
• Experience working with cloud platforms and enterprise software ecosystems.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to diagnose complex technical issues.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with both technical and business stakeholders.
• Ability to work onsite in NYC area

Preferred Experience

• Experience leading enterprise software implementations or customer-facing engineering engagements.
• Background building AI-powered applications, workflow automation platforms, or intelligent software systems.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, observability, monitoring, and production support.
• Familiarity integrating with enterprise platforms including CRM, IT service management, collaboration, identity, or data management systems.
• Understanding of enterprise security principles including authentication, authorization, and secure system integrations.
• Previous experience in an early-stage startup or other high-growth technology environment.

Benefits and Perks

• Salary Range: $200,000 - $250,000
• Meaningful equity opportunity.
• Opportunity to join an early-stage engineering team with significant ownership and visibility.
• Direct collaboration with company leadership and technical decision-makers.
• The ability to shape both product direction and customer success from day one.

Why Our Client

• Build AI solutions that solve meaningful, real-world business problems.
• Own highly visible projects from customer discovery through production deployment.
• Work across engineering, architecture, integrations, and AI rather than being limited to a single area.
• Influence product strategy while working alongside a highly technical, collaborative team.
• Join at an early stage where your contributions will have lasting impact on both the product and the company's growth.
• Accelerate your career while helping build enterprise-grade AI technology from the ground up.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis now and in the future. This position does not offer sponsorship.