Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed Engineer (New Stealth Startup)
About The Position
Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm that builds and invests in technology-led companies across healthcare, cyber, and national security. Its new stealth startup is developing a platform to help organizations in regulated industries turn institutional knowledge into intelligence assets that improve the accuracy, reliability, and impact of AI in real-world workflows. The Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed Engineer works directly with enterprise customers to understand their businesses and workflows and turn operational needs into production-grade AI solutions. This is a remote, United States-based role that combines software engineering, AI development, solution design, and customer engagement. As part of a small deployment team, the engineer owns the full technical lifecycle, from defining problems and building data pipelines through designing evaluations, deploying AI agents, and iterating toward measurable goals. Travel to customer locations is required as needed.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience, including full-stack development with strong backend engineering capabilities.
- Demonstrated experience building and shipping AI applications in production environments.
- Strong understanding of AI agent architectures, evaluation methodologies, and the systems required to develop and operate AI agents reliably.
- Experience developing scalable backend services, APIs, data pipelines, and system integrations.
- Ability to design evaluation systems and use performance data to guide technical iteration.
- Experience translating business and operational requirements into technical solutions.
- Ability to work across solution architecture, hands-on implementation, deployment, and troubleshooting.
- Strong systems-thinking and problem-solving capabilities.
- Experience working directly with enterprise customers or stakeholders in complex or ambiguous environments.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with senior stakeholders.
- Ability and willingness to travel to customer locations as required.
- U.S. citizenship.
Responsibilities
- Work directly with enterprise customer teams to understand their businesses, operating environments, and workflows.
- Translate real operational needs into clearly defined, AI-driven solutions.
- Own the end-to-end design, development, deployment, and improvement of production-grade AI agents tailored to customer-specific problems.
- Build the data pipelines, integrations, and supporting systems required to deploy AI solutions within customer environments.
- Develop evaluation systems that measure agent performance and use the results to drive continued improvement.
- Translate complex business requirements into technical architectures, implementation plans, and measurable outcomes.
- Develop expertise in customer domains and apply that knowledge to improve the relevance and performance of AI systems.
- Partner with Product, Platform, Research, and Engineering teams to deliver reliable, cohesive solutions.
- Identify and codify reusable engineering practices, agent patterns, and technical frameworks for future deployments.
- Translate lessons from customer deployments into actionable feedback for platform and product teams.
- Diagnose technical and operational challenges in customer environments and drive issues through resolution.
- Communicate technical decisions, progress, risks, and results clearly to customer stakeholders and internal teams.
Benefits
- Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement as the firm grows, based on strong performance.
- Comprehensive health care, including medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their families, paid 100% by the employer.
- Paid maternity and paternity leave for 14 weeks at normal pay.
- Unlimited PTO, with management approval.
- Opportunities for professional development and continued learning.
- Optional 401(k), FSA, and equity incentives.
- Mental health benefits through Tara Mind.
- Cost-effective GLP-1 solutions through Crux.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
