Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

About the role

This role is part of the Jobright TNT — the private hiring network connecting top talent with top AI startups like Perplexity, Mercor, Cresta, Suno and 150 more. Galileo is the AI observability and eval engineering platform where offline evals become production guardrails.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with customers to understand their business challenges and design scalable AI-powered solutions
• Build custom features, integrations, and workflows using cutting-edge AI frameworks (e.g. OpenAI Agents SDK, LangGraph, CrewAI)
• Partner with customer engineering and PM teams to deploy solutions and ensure sustained success
• Continuously track, communicate, and align workstreams with internal and customer stakeholders
• Travel on-site to work closely with strategic customers and build deep empathy for their needs

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology) or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years as a backend or full-stack SWE, ideally with experience at an AI-first or developer-focused startup
• Proficient in Python and familiar with deploying LLM-based workflows and evaluations
• Hands-on experience with OpenAI Agents SDK, LangGraph, CrewAI, MCP, or similar
• Familiarity with LLM APIs, RAG architectures, and tools like Rasa, DsPy, or evaluation frameworks
• Experience working directly with customers (external or internal), gathering requirements, and delivering impact
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills
• Willing to travel for onsite work with customers as needed (up to 20%)

Pay

$180K/yr – $210K/yr