Forward Deployed Engineer at Forgepoint

Jack & Jill; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Forgepoint, a16z-backed startup rebuilding the American manufacturing backbone, seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to bridge product and production on-site at US factories, designing agent behaviors and evaluation harnesses for Frank, our AI worker.

You will work with real-world data, automate complex manual processes, and travel to shop floors across the country, delivering immediately observable impact from the code you deploy.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong command of TypeScript (React and NodeJS) and PostgreSQL.
• Deep fluency with LLM APIs, prompting, and evaluation frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design and build agent behaviors and tool-use pipelines for complex manufacturing inputs.
• Collaborate with Deployment Strategists to map quoting and purchasing workflows into configurations.
• Build evaluation harnesses and guardrails to ensure AI reliability and guide product roadmap.

Skills

TypeScript

React

NodeJS

PostgreSQL

Tools

LLM APIs

Job description

Job Title

Forward Deployed Engineer

Salary

Not Disclosed

Company Description

Forgepoint is an a16z-backed startup rebuilding the American manufacturing backbone by deploying AI workers that automate mission-critical back-office workflows like quoting and procurement.

Job Description

As the first Forward Deployed Engineer, you will bridge the gap between product and production. You'll design agent behaviors, build evaluation harnesses for "Frank" (our AI worker), and deploy systems on-site at US factories. Working with messy real-world data, you will automate the complex manual processes currently holding back world-class manufacturers.

Location

New York, USA

Why this role is remarkable

• Backed by a16z Speedrun and elite angels from Brex, Xwing, and Betterment, led by founders with deep scaling experience from Brex and Xwing.
• Direct impact on revitalizing US manufacturing by replacing decades-old manual workflows with sophisticated, non-deterministic AI agents in high-stakes environments.
• High-ownership 0-1 role where you'll travel to shop floors across the country, seeing the immediate physical impact of the code you deploy.

What You Will Do

• Design and build agent behaviors and tool-use pipelines using TypeScript and LLM APIs to handle complex, real-world manufacturing inputs like dirty PDFs.
• Collaborate with Deployment Strategists to map customer quoting and purchasing workflows into technical configurations, ensuring reliable end-to-end execution.
• Build robust evaluation harnesses and guardrails to ensure AI reliability while identifying product gaps directly from the field to influence the core product roadmap.

The ideal candidate

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong command of TypeScript (React and NodeJS) and PostgreSQL database management.
• Proven experience in customer-facing technical roles such as FDE, Solutions Engineering, or Technical PM, ideally within industrial or ERP environments.
• Deep fluency with LLM APIs, prompting strategies, and evaluation frameworks for non-deterministic software, comfortable working onsite in NYC and traveling to customers.