TribalScale is looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to work at the intersection of software engineering, artificial intelligence, product development, and client delivery.

This role is ideal for an adaptable engineer who enjoys direct customer interaction, can move comfortably between discovery and delivery, and wants to see their work create immediate, measurable impact.

Partner directly with clients to understand their objectives, workflows, technical environments, data, and operational constraints.

Translate ambiguous business challenges into clear 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 the harnesses around AI models, including prompts, tools, context, memory, permissions, runtime controls, observability, and feedback mechanisms.

Build and refine agent loops that support planning, tool selection, execution, observation, reflection, recovery, and termination.

Model complex workflows as graphs, state machines, or other orchestration patterns that coordinate models, tools, data, systems, and human approvals.

Create evaluation frameworks that measure task completion, accuracy, reliability, safety, latency, cost, and user value.

Develop rapid prototypes and proofs of concept, validate them with real users and representative evaluations, and evolve successful ideas into secure, scalable products.

Integrate solutions with client systems, enterprise data sources, cloud platforms, and third-party services.

Work across the technology stack, contributing wherever needed—from user interfaces and backend services to AI infrastructure, data workflows, and deployment pipelines.

Forward Deployed Engineer (San Francisco)

Responsibilities

Qualification

Preferred

Company

Tribalscale

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