Forward Deployed Engineer

The role

You will lead the technical side of customer engagements by designing and implementing agent-based solutions. You will work across the stack to build custom tooling and translate field insights into product requirements.

What you will do

• Partner with customers to map business processes to agent-based solutions
• Design and build integration architectures connecting the platform to customer tools
• Implement custom workflows and agent behaviors using modern LLM frameworks
• Build supporting services, scripts, and interfaces
• Work across the stack using Python, TypeScript, and React
• Operate within cloud-native environments like GCP, AWS, and Kubernetes
• Translate field learnings into concrete product requirements and platform features
• Identify patterns to build reusable templates and integration libraries
• Support sales with architecture reviews and proof-of-concept builds
• Act as a trusted advisor to customer engineering and IT teams

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of technical pre-sales experience partnering with sales teams
• 3+ years of experience in software engineering
• Deep comfort working with third-party APIs, authentication protocols, and enterprise systems
• Ability to navigate ambiguous requirements and translate complex business needs into technical solutions
• Ability to explain complex infrastructure to non-technical stakeholders
• A figure it out mindset

Nice to have

• Focus on full-stack development (Python, TypeScript)
• Experience building with LLM APIs or agentic frameworks
• Background in developer tools, infrastructure, or enterprise SaaS
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud-native scaling

About the company

Guild is the control plane for AI agents, providing a platform to build, deploy, govern, and share agents in production. They are building the infrastructure layer to make AI safe, observable, and scalable.