Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

The role

Forward Deployed Engineers embed with client teams to map operational workflows and build AI agent POCs. You will translate business problems into agent workflows, drive adoption through training, and present results to C-suite stakeholders.

What you will do

• Embed with client teams to map how work gets done step by step and system by system
• Translate ambiguous business problems into agent workflows with success criteria and evaluation plans
• Co-create KPIs with clients and propose solutions for monitoring post-deployment uplift
• Drive adoption by training client teams and iterating on agents
• Present findings, prototypes, and results directly to C-suite stakeholders
• Codify what works into Varick's playbooks, skill files, and toolkit
• Build and leverage relationships with existing clients to identify additional AI transformation opportunities

Required qualifications

• Track record of solving hard, ambiguous problems for senior stakeholders and shipping the result
• AI-native: use tools like Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor every day
• Built with LLMs (prompt design, agents, evals)
• Top tier communication and client presence to hold a room of executives
• Analytical with an extreme learning gradient
• Write Python or SQL comfortably
• Worked with APIs
• Can read a data model and follow a trace
• Shipped a product, internal tool, model, or automation that people depended on

Nice to have

• Technical founder or early employee at a startup that sold into the enterprise
• Technical Product Manager at a top-tier company
• Forward Deployed Engineer or Implementation Engineer at a top-tier AI company
• Sales Engineer or Solutions Architect at an enterprise software company
• Senior SWE who wants to work closer to the customer
• Data scientist or analytics lead who has worked directly with business stakeholders
• Quant, trading, or research analyst from a top-tier firm
• Product Manager at a top-tier company
• Top-tier consulting, investment banking, or private equity
• Deployment Strategist at a top-tier AI company

Benefits

• Meaningful equity

Before you apply

• Employment is subject to a standard confidentiality and non-disclosure agreement

About the company

Varick builds AI agents that take over real operational workflows inside the world's largest enterprises. Their team includes members from Meta, AWS Bedrock, Citadel Securities, McKinsey, BCG, and Stanford.