Forward Deployed Engineer building AI-enabled products, agentic workflows, and production software for TribalScale’s digital innovation clients. Translating ambiguous business needs into secure, reliable solutions.
Responsibilities
Partner directly with clients to understand objectives, workflows, technical environments, data, and operational constraints
Translate ambiguous business challenges into technical requirements, solution architectures, prototypes, and delivery plans
Design and build AI-enabled applications, agentic workflows, developer tools, APIs, data pipelines, and full-stack products
Engineer AI-model harnesses including prompts, tools, context, memory, permissions, runtime controls, observability, and feedback mechanisms
Build and refine agent loops for planning, tool selection, execution, observation, reflection, recovery, and termination
Model complex workflows using graphs, state machines, and orchestration patterns
Create evaluation frameworks measuring task completion, accuracy, reliability, safety, latency, cost, and user value
Develop prototypes and proofs of concept, validate them with users and evaluations, and evolve successful ideas into secure, scalable products
Integrate solutions with client systems, enterprise data sources, cloud platforms, and third-party services
Contribute across the stack, including interfaces, backend services, AI infrastructure, data workflows, and deployment pipelines
Implement safeguards, permission boundaries, approval steps, and fallbacks for autonomous and semi-autonomous systems
Instrument AI applications to inspect traces, intermediate states, failures, and performance
Identify and address hallucinations, looping, brittle tool calls, context loss, prompt injection, non-deterministic behavior, and unsafe actions
Troubleshoot complex technical and operational issues in client environments
Communicate technical decisions, risks, trade-offs, and progress to technical and non-technical audiences
Collaborate with product managers, designers, engineers, data specialists, security teams, and client stakeholders
Establish automated testing, documentation, observability, security, and continuous delivery practices
Capture reusable patterns, components, and insights for future engagements
Support technical discovery, solution demonstrations, workshops, and pre-sales conversations
Build trusted client and TribalScale relationships and contribute working software to meaningful business challenges
Requirements
Professional experience building and deploying production-grade software, ideally including AI-powered or agentic systems
Strong proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or another language commonly used to build AI applications, platforms, and developer tooling
Practical understanding of harness engineering, including infrastructure, context, tools, permissions, controls, and feedback mechanisms for reliable AI agents
Experience with agent loops covering planning, tool selection, execution, observation, reflection, recovery, and termination
Familiarity with graph-based orchestration, state machines, and multi-step workflows
Experience designing AI evaluation systems, benchmarks, regression suites, model-graded evaluations, human review, and production monitoring
Understanding of prompts, context management, memory, retrieval, tool use, structured outputs, and model selection trade-offs
Experience instrumenting AI systems to trace decisions, inspect intermediate states, measure quality, and diagnose failures
Strong knowledge of APIs, distributed systems, databases, cloud infrastructure, and modern software-development practices
Ability to understand unfamiliar systems, technologies, and business domains quickly
Ability to move from ambiguous customer problems to prototypes and secure, maintainable production systems
Strong product judgment balancing capability, reliability, latency, cost, security, and user experience
Experience collaborating directly with customers, stakeholders, or cross-functional delivery teams
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Comfort working in fast-moving environments with evolving requirements and constraints
High degree of ownership, curiosity, empathy, and bias toward action
Ability to travel occasionally for client workshops or on-site delivery
Nice-to-have experience with agent frameworks, workflow engines, coding agents, model orchestration, RAG, embeddings, vector search, knowledge graphs, fine-tuning, model routing, AI observability, multi-model systems, AI security, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, containers, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, open-source projects, regulated enterprise environments, consulting, solutions engineering, sales engineering, and customer-facing technical roles
Claude Certified Architect certification or equivalent is nice to have
Benefits
Equal employment opportunity and inclusive workplace culture
Accommodations available for applicants with disabilities
Opportunities to work on high-impact challenges across industries and technology domains
Direct client collaboration and visible impact of decisions
Exploration of emerging AI, agentic systems, product development, and software delivery approaches
Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams
Continuous learning
Ownership, empowerment, meritocracy, and transparency
Opportunity to influence client outcomes and TribalScale’s technical practices
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