TribalScale
Forward Deployed Engineer (San Francisco)
Remote USA · Remote · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Experience
- Professional experience building and deploying production-grade software; no number of years stated.
About the job
Embeds with clients to turn business problems into production-ready software, especially AI-enabled applications and agentic systems.
What you'll do
- Translate client needs into technical requirements, architectures, prototypes, and delivery plans; build and integrate production software.
- Design AI agent harnesses, workflows, evaluations, safeguards, and observability to improve reliability and safety.
- Collaborate with client and internal teams, troubleshoot deployments, and communicate technical decisions and risks.
What they ask for
- Professional experience building and deploying production-grade software.
- Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or another language commonly used to build AI applications, platforms, and developer tooling.
- Practical understanding of harness engineering and experience building or working with agent loops.
- Strong knowledge of APIs, distributed systems, databases, cloud infrastructure, and modern software-development practices.
Nice to have
- Experience with agent frameworks, workflow engines, coding agents, or custom model-orchestration systems.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
Tools
Python, TypeScript, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, CI/CD
AI focus
Builds AI-enabled applications and agentic workflows, including model harnesses, agent loops, orchestration, evaluation, observability, and safeguards for reliable production use.
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