Forward Deployed Engineer

Recruits Lab; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Recruits Lab is seeking a founding Forward Deployed Engineer to deploy agentic AI systems for enterprise customers in mission-critical workflows. You will lead deployments from discovery through production and work onsite in the NY/NJ area, collaborating with the founding team to shape product strategy and best practices.

Responsibilities include building agentic AI systems with tool calling, planning, memory, and human-in-the-loop workflows, as well as integrating with Slack, Salesforce,

Qualifications

• Shipping production agentic AI systems.
• Tool use, planning, persistent memory/state, and workflow orchestration.
• Strong Python and/or TypeScript engineering skills.
• Evaluating LLM performance using benchmarks or automated tests.
• Production engineering with observability, logging, tracing, debugging, rollbacks, reliability.
• APIs and enterprise software integration experience.
• Customer-facing engineering mindset with strong communication.
• Onsite work in New York or New Jersey.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise deployments from discovery through production.
• Design and build agentic AI systems with tool calling, planning, memory, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Integrate with enterprise platforms (Slack, Salesforce, ServiceNow, SQL, Jira, SharePoint, internal systems).
• Build evaluation frameworks, monitoring, observability, and production tooling.
• Debug complex production failures involving LLM behavior and orchestration.
• Collaborate with founders to shape product strategy and deployment best practices.

Skills

Agentic AI systems

Tool use & planning

Python/TypeScript

LLM evaluation

Observability & reliability

APIs & enterprise software

Customer-facing communication

Onsite NY/NJ

Tools

LangGraph

LangChain

LlamaIndex

DSPy

CrewAI

AutoGen

Temporal

Airflow

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Forward Deployed Engineer (Agentic AI Systems)

NY/NJ (Onsite)

Build production AI agents—not chatbots.

Our client is a stealth-stage AI startup building enterprise-grade autonomous agent platforms that automate complex, knowledge-intensive business processes. Their systems reason, plan, integrate with enterprise software, maintain long-term memory, and execute real work in production.

They’re hiring a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with enterprise customers, deploying agentic AI systems into mission-critical workflows.

If you’ve already shipped production AI agents and love solving difficult engineering problems alongside customers, we’d love to speak with you.

What You’ll Do

• Lead enterprise deployments from discovery through production
• Design and build agentic AI systems with tool calling, planning, memory, and human-in-the-loop workflows
• Integrate with enterprise platforms including Slack, Salesforce, ServiceNow, SQL, Jira, SharePoint, and internal knowledge systems
• Build evaluation frameworks, monitoring, observability, and production reliability tooling
• Debug complex production failures involving LLM behavior, tool execution, and orchestration
• Work alongside the founding team to shape product strategy, architecture, and deployment best practices

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience shipping production agentic AI systems
• Hands-on experience with tool use, planning, persistent memory/state, and workflow orchestration
• Strong Python and/or TypeScript engineering skills
• Experience evaluating LLM performance using benchmarks, regression testing, or automated evaluations
• Production engineering experience including observability, logging, tracing, debugging, rollbacks, and reliability
• Experience integrating APIs and enterprise software
• Customer-facing engineering mindset with excellent communication skills
• Able to work onsite in New York or New Jersey

Preferred Experience

Experience with one or more of:

• LangGraph
• LangChain
• LlamaIndex
• DSPy
• CrewAI
• AutoGen
• Temporal
• Airflow
• OpenTelemetry
• RAG systems
• Enterprise AI deployments
• Security, permissions, and audit logging

Why Join?

• Founding engineering role with significant ownership
• Competitive salary plus meaningful equity
• Work directly with experienced founders
• Shape the future of enterprise AI infrastructureSolve challenging real-world AI deployment problems—not demos