Agent Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer

We are looking for highly capable and customer-obsessed Agent Engineers / Forward Deployed Engineers to lead technical deployments of IntentLab inside large engineering organizations. This role requires strong engineering fundamentals, hands-on agent experience, sharp customer instincts, and the ability to operate independently in ambiguous, high-stakes environments.

Customer Deployments

• Lead end-to-end technical deployments of IntentLab inside customer engineering organizations.

• Wire our system into customer codebases, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure.

• Own the customer technical lifecycle from first integration through steady-state operation.

Agent Engineering

• Build and tune custom agent behaviors, tool integrations, and evaluation harnesses for each customer's backend.

• Debug agent performance across distributed systems and unfamiliar production code.

• Validate integrations and maintain reliable system performance in customer environments.

Customer Partnership

• Lead demos, pilots, and technical workshops with engineers, platform leads, and CTOs.

• Build deep relationships with customer engineering teams and drive adoption from the inside.

• Translate customer pain and usage patterns into product and research priorities.

Execution & Craft

• Bias toward shipping fixes and features yourself rather than filing tickets.

• Write crisp documentation, reference integrations, and playbooks that turn one-off wins into repeatable ones.

• Operate at the edges — name problems, propose solutions, drive to done.

• 3+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong foundation in backend or infrastructure work.

• Hands-on experience with LLMs and agent systems: prompt engineering, tool use, evals, multi-step orchestration.

• Familiarity with distributed systems, containers, CI/CD, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).

• Proficiency in at least one modern language (e.g., Python, TypeScript, Go).

• Strong written and verbal communication — comfortable with senior engineers and executives alike.

• Self-directed by default; comfortable with ambiguity, context switching, and sustained intensity.

• Based in the Bay Area or willing to relocate (onsite role).

• Customer empathy and end-to-end ownership.

• Bias toward execution over planning to execute.

• Technical curiosity and exploratory rigor.

• Pragmatism over over-engineering.

• Grit in high-intensity, ambiguous environments.