Forward-Deployed Engineer

The role

You will drive how global enterprises deploy AI at scale by building and operationalizing AI automation. You will own strategic customer deployments and shape product strategy by carrying field signal back to Product and Engineering.

What you will do

• Run deep process discovery with customers
• Build lightweight prototypes and applications that showcase Tessera's AI agents
• Partner with GTM to frame technical boundaries and produce technical collateral
• Collaborate with Infra and Engineering to architect implementations
• Iterate with customers and cross-functional partners to drive adoption
• Carry field signal back to Product and Engineering
• Build durable customer relationships and surface new automation opportunities
• Lead training and workshop sessions on-site

Required qualifications

• 2+ years building software in a high-ownership, customer-facing capacity
• Strong hands-on experience with Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript/Rust
• Experience building production-grade AI systems
• A track record of taking ambiguous, high-stakes problems from zero to shipped
• Strong communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• The ability to operate effectively under ambiguity and fast-moving deployments
• An ownership mentality
• A history of learning hard things fast and operating far outside your original lane

Nice to have

• Experience at a frontier AI lab or top AI application company
• Founder experience

Benefits

• Relocation stipend

About the company

Tessera is a remote company. Tessera is a product company whose business model drives outcomes through a platform.