Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed Engineer (New Stealth Startup)

The role

You will work directly with enterprise customers to translate operational needs into production-grade AI solutions. You will own the full technical lifecycle including building data pipelines, designing evaluations, and deploying AI agents.

What you will do

• Work directly with enterprise customer teams to understand their businesses, operating environments, and workflows.
• Translate real operational needs into clearly defined, AI-driven solutions.
• Own the end-to-end design, development, deployment, and improvement of production-grade AI agents.
• Build the data pipelines, integrations, and supporting systems required to deploy AI solutions.
• Develop evaluation systems that measure agent performance.
• Translate complex business requirements into technical architectures, implementation plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Develop deep expertise in customer domains to improve AI systems.
• Partner with Product, Platform, Research, and Engineering teams.
• Identify and codify reusable engineering practices, agent patterns, and technical frameworks.
• Translate lessons from customer deployments into actionable feedback for platform and product teams.

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, including full-stack development with strong backend engineering capabilities.
• Demonstrated experience building and shipping AI applications in production environments.
• Strong understanding of AI agent architectures, evaluation methodologies, and the systems required to develop and operate AI agents reliably.
• Experience developing scalable backend services, APIs, data pipelines, and system integrations.
• Ability to design evaluation systems and use performance data to guide technical iteration.
• Experience translating business and operational requirements into technical solutions.
• Ability to move between solution architecture, hands-on implementation, deployment, and troubleshooting.
• Strong systems-thinking and problem-solving capabilities.
• Experience working directly with enterprise customers or stakeholders in complex or ambiguous environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability and willingness to travel to customer locations as required.
• U.S. citizenship is required.

Benefits

• Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement
• 100% employer paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family
• Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay
• Unlimited PTO, with management approval
• Opportunities for professional development and continued learning
• Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available
• Mental health benefits are available through Tara Mind
• Cost effective GLP-1 solutions available through Crux

Before you apply

• U.S. citizenship is required.

About the company

Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building and investing in rapidly scalable technology-led companies in healthcare, cyber, and national security. They are launching a new stealth startup that helps organizations transform institutional knowledge into intelligence assets.