Remote AI Forward-Deployed Engineer

Tribalscale Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

TribalScale is seeking a Forward Deployed Agile Software Engineer to work at the intersection of software engineering, AI, and client delivery. You will embed with client and internal teams to translate complex problems into production-quality software in real-world environments.

You will operate as both hands-on engineer and technical partner, designing systems around AI models, harnesses, and tool integrations to deliver secure, scalable products with measurable impact.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building and deploying production-grade software, including AI-powered or agentic systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or similar languages used for AI apps, platforms, and tooling.
• Understanding harness engineering: infrastructure, context, tools, permissions, controls, feedback mechanisms.
• Experience with agent loops, including planning, tool selection, execution, observation, reflection, recovery, and termination.
• Familiarity with graph-based orchestration and state machines for coordinating agents, tools, and data.

Responsibilities

• Partner with clients to understand objectives, environments, data, and constraints.
• Translate ambiguous business problems into technical requirements and delivery plans.
• Design and build AI-enabled applications, agentic workflows, and full-stack products.
• Engineer the harnesses around AI models, including prompts, tools, and memory.
• Create evaluation frameworks to measure task completion, reliability, and cost.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

AI applications

Harness engineering

APIs

Cloud infrastructure

Observability

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD tooling

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

TribalScale is seeking a Forward Deployed Agile Software Engineer to work at the intersection of software engineering, AI, and client delivery. You will embed with client and internal teams to translate complex problems into production-quality software in real-world environments.

You will operate as both hands-on engineer and technical partner, designing systems around AI models, harnesses, and tool integrations to deliver secure, scalable products with measurable impact.