Forward Deployed AI Engineer

The Role

You keep ZeroDrift small and fast. You build the internal AI agents and automation that let a tiny team do the work of a large one, and you embed with our enterprise customers to get them live quickly. This is a hands-on, individual-contributor role. You own the work and ship it yourself. You will be one of our first AI engineers, with the ownership and equity upside that come with building a new category from the ground up.

• Build internal AI agents that handle operations, support, and go-to-market work, so we add headcount only where it creates real leverage
• Turn customer onboarding into a repeatable, mostly automated process
• Embed with early enterprise customers, integrate ZeroDrift into their stack, and hand back a clean, working deployment
• Debug live issues across APIs, data flows, and model behavior, and fix the root cause
• Carry what you learn in the field back to product and engineering

What you bring

• 5+ years writing production software, including time in customer-facing or deployment-heavy roles
• Fluent in a general-purpose language (for example Python or TypeScript) and comfortable across APIs, cloud, and data
• You have built automation or LLM agents that ran in production, not just demos
• A clear communicator who earns the trust of engineers and executives alike
• You move fast and finish

Bonus points

• Built LLM agent workflows or internal tooling at a startup
• Worked in a regulated industry such as financial services, healthcare, or insurance
• Early-stage or 0 to 1 experience

How we work

We are hyper-focused on speed of execution and on owning our work end to end. This is a full-time hybrid role: three days a week in our office at 4 World Trade Center in New York City, and the rest remote.

Benefits

• Top-tier medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus a 401(k)

ZeroDrift is an equal opportunity employer

You must be authorized to work in the United States.

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