Forward Deployed Engineer

Location: NJ, Onsite

Responsibilities

• Embed on-site or deeply with customer teams; map their most painful workflows with your Deployment Strategist partner and turn them into shipped software.
• Build data pipelines (e.g., PySpark) connecting customer source systems — ERP, CRM, databases, documents — with quality, lineage, and row/column-level permissions.
• Model customer data as an executable ontology (Objects, Properties, Links, Actions) and prepare it for AI consumption (vector indexes, retrieval sources).
• Build RAG-grounded agents and applications (e.g., TypeScript) that don't just answer — they act, writing back to real systems via tool-calling.
• Run fast validation loops with business users: weekly iterations, evaluation, guardrail tuning, go/no-go.
• Harden and deploy to production with the Core-Dev team — multi-cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) or fully on-premises/air-gapped.
• Deliver AI-driven software builds (new applications, SaaS replacements, migrations) using our AI-development harness — orchestrating specialist AI agents through a gated lifecycle rather than hand-writing every line.
• Feed what you learn back to HQ: patterns you validate in the field become standard platform components.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering fundamentals — you can design, build, debug, and ship production systems end to end.
• Hands-on experience with LLM applications: RAG, agents, tool/function calling, prompt and context engineering, evaluation.
• Data engineering competence: pipelines, SQL, data modeling; PySpark or similar a plus.
• Full-stack ability to stand up usable applications quickly (TypeScript/React or similar).
• Comfort operating in ambiguity at a customer site — extracting requirements from real users, making scoping calls, and defending technical decisions to non-engineers.
• Bias for shipping: you'd rather demo something real in ten days than perfect something in three months.
• Excellent communication; you will be the face of the team at the customer.
• Nice to have: Kubernetes/Helm/Terraform familiarity; experience deploying in restricted or air-gapped environments.
• Nice to have: Experience with AI coding agents/harnesses (Claude Code or similar) used for production-grade development.
• Nice to have: Ontology, knowledge-graph, or enterprise data-platform experience.
• Nice to have: Enterprise domain exposure: supply chain, CRM, HR systems, e-commerce, or manufacturing.