Founding Forward Deployed Engineer (Agentic AI Systems)

Forward Deployed Engineer (Agentic AI Systems)

📍 Chatsworth, CA (Onsite)

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 Chatsworth, CA

Preferred Experience

Experience with one or more of:

• LangGraph
• LangChain
• LlamaIndex
• DSPy
• CrewAI
• AutoGen
• Temporal
• Airflow
• OpenTelemetry
• RAG systems
• Enterprise AI deployments
• 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

This search is being conducted confidentially by Recruits Lab on behalf of our client.

If you've built production-ready AI agents and want to help define the future of enterprise software, we encourage you to apply.