Sycamore
Forward Deployed Engineer
Bay Area +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Location
- Bay Area
New York - Experience
- 5–12 years of software engineering experience; exceptions may be made for exceptional people in either direction.
About the job
Build and operate customer-specific enterprise agent applications from workflow discovery through deployment, adoption, and iteration, while turning repeated needs into reusable product capabilities.
What you'll do
- Translate enterprise workflows into technical designs, software, and measurable outcomes; build user experiences, APIs, data models, agent tools, integrations, and operational controls.
- Own testing, deployment, production debugging, adoption, and iteration, including enterprise security and operational requirements.
- Work with Core AI or Infrastructure to make recurring runtime, connector, memory, or deployment needs reusable.
What they ask for
- Strong software fundamentals in product design, APIs, data modeling, distributed systems, testing, and production debugging.
- Evidence of personally shipping and operating meaningful production software.
- Security-minded approach to enterprise data, permissions, credentials, approvals, and auditability.
- Clear communication and comfort with ambiguity, broad ownership, and regular customer travel.
Nice to have
- Experience as a founder, early product engineer, or forward-deployed engineer is described as a signal, not a requirement.
Tools
TypeScript, React, TanStack, Tailwind, Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes
AI focus
Build enterprise agent applications, including agent instructions, tool interfaces, connectors, and durable workflows; use coding agents and modern models while owning architecture and code quality.
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