Engineering Full-Time

Forward Deployed Engineer (US)

Tenex • Flatiron/NoMad, New York City, NY

Company

Tenex

Annual salary

$180k – $300k/yr

Location

Flatiron/NoMad, New York City, NY

Listed

89d ago

Experience:: 3 to 8 years
Workplace:: 5 days in-office in near Madison Square Park, NYC
Visa:: Visa sponsorship available
Equity:: Not available at the moment

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About this Role

We are looking for Forward Deployed Engineers with 3-8 years of experience to embed directly into Fortune 500 client environments and ship production AI systems that transform how businesses operate. You'll join a bootstrapped, fast-growing team (40 → 200 by year-end) that partners with Anthropic and OpenAI to solve the hardest AI transformation problems for household-name companies.

What you need

3-8 years of production software engineering experience with evidence of personally shipping something substantial and complex
True full-stack engineer, must have hands-on experience writing and deploying production code (not solutions engineering or data-only roles)
Experience with major cloud infrastructure providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure) in production or serious projects
High agency and pace, comfortable working startup hours in-person 5 days/week in NYC, not looking for a 40hr/week role
Strong client-facing communication skills, you'll be presenting to and partnering with enterprise engineering teams and executives

What will you be doing?

Own end-to-end builds of AI workflows and agentic systems for enterprise clients, from architecture to production deployment
Ramp into unfamiliar client codebases (sometimes Fortune 500 monoliths) and ship production code with minimal hand-holding
Work directly with C-suite stakeholders (CIOs, CEOs) at major companies across finance, entertainment, CPG, and more
Use agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) to ship at speeds that weren't possible a year ago
Collaborate with AI Strategists to scope bets, then make them real, building systems that run when nobody from Tenex is in the room

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The listing gives the location as Flatiron/NoMad, New York City, NY. 5 days in-office in near Madison Square Park, NYC. Visa sponsorship available.