Forward Deployed Engineer: Agentic AI in Production

Prentis; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation + meaningful

Direct access to founding team

Engineering support and compute/tools

High ownership in fast-paced env.

Opportunity to shape product direction

Deployment playbook development

Job summary

Prentis is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to deploy autonomous AI agents into real enterprise workflows. You will work directly with customers to map processes, build agentic systems, and own production reliability end-to-end.

You’ll ship in the field, with a focus on tool use, planning, memory, and rigorous observability. Onsite in Chatsworth, California, you’ll collaborate with the founding team to shape product direction and deployment playbooks.

Qualifications

• Shipped agentic systems with tool use, planning, state/memory, and reliability mechanisms
• Experience evaluating LLM/agent behavior with task suites and metrics
• Strong Python and/or TypeScript, API integrations, and systems thinking
• Comfortable with customer-facing ownership and outcomes
• Willingness to work onsite in Chatsworth, California

Responsibilities

• Design and build agentic systems with tool calls, planning loops, state/memory, and HITL controls
• Implement reliability mechanisms: retries, timeouts, checkpointing, idempotency, and safe failure modes
• Build enterprise integrations (Slack/Jira/Salesforce/ServiceNow/SQL/SharePoint) including auth and auditability
• Create evaluation/monitoring dashboards for production quality, cost, latency
• Debug production issues: non-determinism, flaky tools, prompt regressions, outages
• Collaborate with the founding team to shape product roadmap, technical strategy, and deployment playbooks

Skills

Agentic systems

LLM evaluation

Python/TypeScript

Customer-facing ownership

Production reliability

Tools

LangGraph

LangChain

LlamaIndex

AutoGen

CrewAI

DSPy

Job description

Prentis is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to deploy autonomous AI agents into real enterprise workflows. You will work directly with customers to map processes, build agentic systems, and own production reliability end-to-end.

You’ll ship in the field, with a focus on tool use, planning, memory, and rigorous observability. Onsite in Chatsworth, California, you’ll collaborate with the founding team to shape product direction and deployment playbooks.