Onsite AI Engineer for Manufacturing Quoting Workflows

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

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.