Forward Deployed Engineer, Ecosystem - Tavily

Nebius • New York, NY

13d • $140,800 - $183,900 • Onsite

About The Position

This is a full-time, on-site role based in our New York office. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, Ecosystem, you’ll work directly with Tavily’s strategic partners to design, build, and launch solutions that make Tavily a core component of the modern agent stack. You’ll partner with external engineering and product teams to create high-quality integrations, reference implementations, demos, technical content, and joint solutions that help developers and companies build better AI agents. You’ll be both a builder and a technical partner. You’ll ship code, shape integration strategy, influence product direction, and help Tavily become the default search and web access layer for agentic applications across the AI ecosystem.

Requirements

• 3+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in a partner-facing, developer-facing, or customer-facing technical role such as Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Architect, Developer Advocate, Solutions Engineer, Partner Engineer, or Sales Engineer.
• Strong hands-on engineering ability, especially with Python, APIs, SDKs, backend systems, and developer-facing integrations.
• Deep interest in the AI ecosystem and strong familiarity with the modern agent stack.
• Experience building with LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, agent architectures, context engineering, and AI application frameworks.
• Experience with at least one major agent or LLM orchestration framework, such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, CrewAI, or similar tools.
• Strong product intuition and ability to design integrations that are technically sound, easy to use, and valuable for developers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills across engineering, product, partner, and developer audiences.
• Ability to create clear technical content, including documentation, tutorials, example apps, demos, and reference architectures.
• High autonomy, strong ownership, and comfort operating in a fast-moving startup environment.
• Based in New York City, or willing to relocate.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with model providers, agent framework teams, developer platforms, AI infrastructure companies, or major technical partners.
• Experience contributing to open-source projects, especially in the LLM, RAG, agent, or developer tools ecosystem.
• Experience building or maintaining SDKs, integrations, plugins, templates, or framework adapters.
• Experience speaking at developer conferences, hosting workshops, publishing technical content, or building developer communities.
• Experience with vector databases such as Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, Qdrant, or similar systems.
• Track record launching partner integrations or developer-facing technical initiatives that drove meaningful adoption.
• Prior experience at a high-growth AI infrastructure, developer tools, or open-source company.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with ecosystem partners, including model providers, agent frameworks, orchestration platforms, AI developer tools, ISVs, and infrastructure companies.
• Design, build, and maintain high-quality integrations that make Tavily easy to adopt across the modern AI and agent stack.
• Create reference implementations, example applications, SDK examples, retrieval pipelines, agent workflows, demos, and technical templates.
• Collaborate with partner engineering and product teams on integration design, technical tradeoffs, launch plans, and adoption goals.
• Support technical partner conversations from early exploration through integration launch, developer adoption, and ongoing iteration.
• Identify opportunities for Tavily to become embedded in partner products, frameworks, docs, templates, and developer workflows.
• Translate ecosystem patterns and partner feedback into product and roadmap input for Tavily’s Product and Engineering teams.
• Partner with Sales, Partnerships, Developer Relations, Product, and Engineering to support strategic launches and joint technical initiatives.
• Represent Tavily in partner reviews, technical workshops, developer communities, conferences, livestreams, and technical content.
• Help build scalable ecosystem assets, including integration guides, demo environments, playbooks, docs, tutorials, and reusable examples.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Career growth and learning opportunities
• Flexibility and ownership
• Collaborative and innovative culture
• Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects
• International environment and talented teams
• 100% company-paid medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and families
• Up to 4% company match with immediate vesting
• 20 weeks paid for primary caregivers, 12 weeks for secondary caregivers
• Up to $85/month for mobile and internet
• Company-paid short-term, long-term and life insurance coverage

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed