Forward Deployed Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop new features, address defects, refactor applications, and create automated tests utilizing AI-assisted development tools.

• Utilize Cursor and other coding environments for exploring repositories, implementation, debugging, testing, and code reviews.

• Convert product requirements into engineering tasks, technical strategies, and acceptance criteria.

• Take ownership of code quality and readiness for delivery, including modifications generated by AI models or agents.

• Collaborate with product, engineering, and quality teams to ensure the delivery of reliable software releases.

• Design and maintain prompts, repository instructions, context strategies, and reusable software-engineering workflows.

• Provide models with essential architecture, dependencies, coding standards, constraints, and expected outcomes.

• Establish repeatable evaluations for correctness, consistency, requirement coverage, and needs for human intervention.

• Enhance prompts and workflows based on test results, code reviews, and delivery outcomes.

• Create coordinated coding-agent groups for planning, implementation, testing, review, and documentation.

• Design workflows for task delegation, handover, takeover, and recovery with clear ownership and shared task states.

• Manage parallel execution, dependencies, isolated workspaces, and integration conflicts.

• Define tool access, execution limits, and human review checkpoints.

• Ensure that changes produced by agents are traceable, reviewable, tested, and seamlessly integrated.

• Select models and tools based on task requirements, quality, latency, and cost considerations.

• Optimize context size, token consumption, model routing, retries, and overhead associated with agent execution.

• Establish performance baselines and measure development throughput, delivery time, review efforts, and AI-related expenses.

• Report weekly and monthly on delivery trends, including the number of pull requests raised and merged.

• Share validated practices and reusable tools that enhance the overall effectiveness of the engineering team.

⛳️ Requirements

• 0–4 years of relevant experience in software engineering, AI engineering, or applied AI development; academic, personal, and open-source projects will be considered.

• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, Go, or C#.

• Hands-on experience with cutting-edge models, including OpenAI models or Anthropic Claude, in software development.

• Practical experience with Cursor or similar AI coding environments.

• Strong skills in prompt engineering, including task decomposition, context preparation, structured outputs, and iterative evaluations.

• Working knowledge of Git, pull requests, debugging, automated testing, APIs, and CI/CD practices.

• Ability to comprehend existing codebases and independently evaluate the accuracy of AI-generated code.

• Excellent communication skills, a collaborative work ethic, and a sense of ownership regarding engineering outcomes.

• Preferred: experience in developing workflows with multiple coding agents, encompassing delegation, handover, and integration.

• Preferred: familiarity with model APIs, tool calling, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and frameworks for agent orchestration.

• Preferred: experience in evaluating prompts and models using defined datasets, acceptance criteria, and automated checks.

• Preferred: experience in monitoring AI usage, engineering productivity, and cost-effectiveness.

• Preferred: exposure to cloud platforms, containers, deployment automation, and application observability.

• Preferred: a portfolio of working software that demonstrates effective use of AI tools, supported by tests and technical documentation.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible and discretionary time off.

• Healthcare coverage for you and your loved ones.

• Retirement savings plan.

• Flexible spending accounts.

• Health savings accounts.

• Life and AD&D insurance.

• Opportunities for professional development.

• Annual bonus may be available.