Founding Forward Deployed Engineer (Agentic AI Systems)

Forward Deployed Engineer (Agentic AI Systems) 📍 Chatsworth, CA (Onsite) Build production AI agents—not chatbots. Our client is a stealth-stage AI startup building enterprise-grade autonomous agent platforms that automate complex, knowledge-intensive business processes. Their systems reason, plan, integrate with enterprise software, maintain long-term memory, and execute real work in production. They're hiring a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with enterprise customers, deploying agentic AI systems into mission-critical workflows. If you've already shipped production AI agents and love solving difficult engineering problems alongside customers, we'd love to speak with you. What You'll Do Lead enterprise deployments from discovery through production Design and build agentic AI systems with tool calling, planning, memory, and human-in-the-loop workflows Integrate with enterprise platforms including Slack, Salesforce, ServiceNow, SQL, Jira, SharePoint, and internal knowledge systems Build evaluation frameworks, monitoring, observability, and production reliability tooling Debug complex production failures involving LLM behavior, tool execution, and orchestration Work alongside the founding team to shape product strategy, architecture, and deployment best practices Required Qualifications Proven experience shipping production agentic AI systems Hands-on experience with tool use, planning, persistent memory/state, and workflow orchestration Strong Python and/or TypeScript engineering skills Experience evaluating LLM performance using benchmarks, regression testing, or automated evaluations Production engineering experience including observability, logging, tracing, debugging, rollbacks, and reliability Experience integrating APIs and enterprise software Customer-facing engineering mindset with excellent communication skills Able to work onsite in Chatsworth, CA Preferred Experience Experience with one or more of: LangGraph LangChain LlamaIndex DSPy CrewAI AutoGen Temporal Airflow OpenTelemetry RAG systems Enterprise AI deployments Security, permissions, and audit logging Why Join? Founding engineering role with significant ownership Competitive salary plus meaningful equity Work directly with experienced founders Shape the future of enterprise AI infrastructure Solve challenging real-world AI deployment problems—not demos This search is being conducted confidentially by Recruits Lab on behalf of our client. If you've built production-ready AI agents and want to help define the future of enterprise software, we encourage you to apply. Show more Show less