Forward Deployed Engineer – AI & Agentic Systems

🚀 HIRING: Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) — AI / Agentic Systems 📍 Location: Midtown Manhattan, New York City 🏢 Work Model: Hybrid — Monday–Thursday in office 💼 Employment: Full-time 💰 Base Salary: $150,000–$200,000 + Competitive Equity 👥 Visa: Visa sponsorship is available About the Opportunity We are hiring Forward Deployed Engineers to join a fast-growing, AI-native technology company building autonomous AI agents for the healthcare recruiting industry. The company is developing AI-powered systems that automate significant portions of the recruiting lifecycle, helping healthcare organizations hire faster, reduce recruiting overhead, and fill critical clinical roles more efficiently. The platform already supports thousands of candidate conversations each month and is scaling toward significantly higher volumes. This is an opportunity to join a lean, high-velocity engineering team where individual engineers have substantial ownership and direct impact on customers, product development, and business outcomes. About the Role We are looking for technically strong Forward Deployed Engineers with 4–6 years of total professional experience, including: 2+ years of Forward Deployed Engineering experience2+ years of full-stack software engineering experienceYou'll operate at the intersection of software engineering, applied AI, and customer delivery. You will own the complete lifecycle of AI agent implementations — from customer discovery and requirements gathering through deployment, production monitoring, optimization, and ongoing iteration. This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys both building production software and working directly with customers. What You'll Do 🔹 Build & Deploy AI Agents Build, deploy, and iterate on AI interviewer agents.Work across Python, JavaScript, APIs, and agentic pipelines.Develop reliable AI-powered solutions for real-world production environments.Integrate AI systems into customer workflows.🔹 Own Customer Deployments End-to-End Lead technical discovery with customers.Understand customer requirements and translate them into technical solutions.Own implementations from 0→1 through production.Drive onboarding and successful go-live.Support customers throughout the post-deployment lifecycle.🔹 Monitor & Improve Production Systems Monitor deployed AI agents and production performance.Identify issues and opportunities for improvement.Analyze agent behavior and performance.Gather customer feedback.Rapidly implement and ship improvements.🔹 Partner With Product & Engineering Collaborate closely with the core engineering team.Identify product capabilities required by customers.Contribute directly to the production codebase.Help shape product development based on real-world deployment requirements.Required Experience We're looking for candidates with: ✅ 4–6 years of total professional experience Including: ✅ 2+ years of Forward Deployed Engineering experience ✅ 2+ years of full-stack software engineering experience Technical Requirements Strong hands-on experience with: PythonJavaScriptREST/API developmentData pipelinesEvaluation frameworks / eval harnessesTesting frameworksFull-stack software engineeringLLM-powered applicationsAgentic pipelinesPrompt engineeringExperience working with modern LLM technologies such as GPT, Claude, Gemini, LLaMA, or Mistral is highly relevant. AI / Conversational AI Experience Experience with voice or conversational AI systems is particularly valuable. Ideal candidates may have worked with: Real-time AI systemsVoice AIConversational agentsLLM agentsHigh-volume AI applicationsProduction conversational workflowsAI evaluation and monitoringAgent performance optimizationCustomer-Facing Experience This is not a purely backend or internal engineering position. You should be comfortable working directly with customers and stakeholders and be able to: Lead technical discoveryGather and clarify requirementsTranslate business needs into technical solutionsCommunicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholdersDrive customer onboardingManage technical implementationsTake deployments through productionGather feedback and convert it into product improvementsStartup Experience Prior startup or early-stage company experience is strongly preferred. Candidates coming from Big Tech environments may also be considered, particularly if they have demonstrated experience in a startup, scrappy environment, or early-stage product team where they had significant ownership and operated with speed and ambiguity. Education 🎓 Bachelor's degree in: Computer ScienceEngineeringMathematicsOr another closely related technical disciplineIdeal Candidate Profile We're looking for an engineer who is: ⚡ Hands-on — comfortable writing production code and solving problems independently. 🤝 Customer-oriented — able to work directly with customers and understand their needs. 🧠 Technically strong — experienced across full-stack engineering and applied AI. 🚀 High-velocity — comfortable working in a fast-moving startup environment. 🔧 Ownership-driven — capable of taking a deployment from initial requirements through production. 🎯 Outcome-focused — motivated by customer and business impact rather than simply completing assigned tickets. 💬 Strong communicator — able to translate ambiguous requirements into practical technical solutions. Why This Opportunity? This role offers the opportunity to work on real-world AI systems at meaningful production scale. You'll have the chance to: Build and deploy AI agentsWork directly with customersSolve complex real-world problemsInfluence product capabilitiesWork across AI and full-stack engineeringOwn projects from 0→1 to productionOperate in a highly entrepreneurial environmentMake a direct impact on how healthcare organizations recruitCompensation & Work Arrangement 💰 Salary: $150,000–$200,000 📊 Equity: Competitive 📍 Location: Midtown Manhattan, NYC 🏢 Hybrid: Monday–Thursday in office 💼 Employment: Full-time 👥 Openings: 3–4 positions 📩 How to Apply If you're a Forward Deployed Engineer with strong full-stack engineering experience, hands-on AI/LLM experience, and a passion for working directly with customers, we'd love to hear from you. Please apply with your updated CV/resume highlighting relevant experience in: Forward Deployed EngineeringFull-stack software engineeringPython / JavaScriptAI / LLM applicationsAgentic systemsVoice or conversational AICustomer-facing technical deploymentsProduction implementations📩 Apply now or message us directly to learn more about the opportunity. #Hiring #ForwardDeployedEngineer #FDE #AIJobs #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI #AIEngineering #SoftwareEngineering #FullStack #Python #JavaScript #ConversationalAI #VoiceAI #StartupJobs #NYCJobs #NewYorkJobs #HealthcareAI