Founding Forward Deployed Engineer (Agentic AI Systems)

Recruits Lab; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Founding role

Job summary

Recruits Lab is assisting a stealth-stage AI startup with a founding Forward Deployed Engineer role to deploy agentic AI systems for enterprise customers in New York/New Jersey.

The candidate will lead deployments, design AI systems with memory and tool use, and work closely with the founding team to shape architecture and deployment best practices.

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.

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 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.

Skills

agentic AI systems

Python

TypeScript

tool use

planning

memory/state

workflow orchestration

LLM evaluation

Observability

APIs & enterprise software

customer-facing mindset

Tools

LangGraph

LangChain

DSPy

CrewAI

AutoGen

Temporal

Airflow

OpenTelemetry

RAG systems

Security & audit logging

Job description

Forward Deployed Engineer (Agentic AI Systems)

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
• DSPy
• CrewAI
• AutoGen
• Temporal
• Airflow
• OpenTelemetry
• RAG systems
• 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 infrastructure
• Solve challenging real-world AI deployment problems—not demos

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