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Forward Deployed Engineer - AI Agent Engineer

AI summary of the role

Forward Deployed Engineer role at an enterprise AI agent platform startup.

What you’ll do

  • Build and deploy production-ready AI agents that solve real business problems for enterprise customers
  • Lead proof of concept (POC) development and transition agents from pilot to production
  • Provide hands-on technical implementation support including Python development, SQL database work, and AWS infrastructure
  • Act as Technical Account Manager (TAM) for assigned customers, ensuring ongoing success and value realization

What you’ll bring

  • 3-4+ years of experience in a consulting firm, systems integration role, or similar customer-facing technical position
  • Strong understanding of AI agents, LLMs, LangChain, CrewAI, n8n, RAG architectures, and agentic application patterns
  • Ability to build and deploy Python applications quickly (sub-15 minutes for simple apps)
  • Strong working knowledge of AWS services and deployment

Technologies

AI agents · LLMs · LangChain · CrewAI · n8n · RAG · Python · AWS · SQL · VSCode · Cursor

About Sema4.ai

Enterprise platform enabling business users to build, deploy, and manage AI agents for mission-critical knowledge work without coding.

Series A · 50–100 people

Source and classification

Production engineering · Evidence for this classification:

seeking a dynamic Forward Deployed Engineer who thrives in fast-paced customer environments and brings deep technical expertise in AI agents. You'll work directly with enterprise clients to design, build, and deploy custom AI agent solutions while serving as the technical bridge between customers and our engineering team. You bring a "big motor"—the drive and energy to be first in the office, last to leave, and passionate about making customers successful. What You’ll Do Primary Focus: Deploy Production Agents Understanding the Customer Requirements and ideal target pieces for an Agent Define the success criteria for the AI agent Build and deploy production-ready AI agents that solve real business problems for enterprise customers Lead proof of concept (POC) development and transition agents from pilot to production Architect and implement custom AI agent solutions tailored to
More from the job description

This is a moment of change — and tremendous potential. Do you want to be part of shaping what’s next in human-AI collaboration? Sema4.ai enables the enterprise to build, run, and manage intelligent AI agents that transform how people work. As Generative AI shakes up every industry, enterprises are looking for ways to unleash stunning productivity gains; deliver efficiencies with profound effects on the bottom line; accelerate innovation pipelines; and disrupt new markets. What you can expect from us: Unleash stunning productivity gains Deliver efficiencies with profound effects on the bottom line Accelerate your career growth by working with leading-edge technology, pioneering customers, and world-class colleagues Recently named to Business Insider’s list of the most promising startups of 2024, Sema4.ai is funded by tier 1 venture capital firms–the ones who backed household names like Uber, Snapchat, Instagram, and Zendesk. Our founders are innovators in open source, big data, and automation-as-code. As previous leaders of the Enterprise Hadoop offering at Hortonworks and Cloudera, the Sema4.ai team has already managed a quarter of the world’s data with deployments in 90+ countries. The Opportunity At Sema4.ai, we're building an Enterprise AI Agent platform that reinvents how knowledge work happens—how people and AI agents collaborate to get work done better and faster. [... source excerpt omitted ...] the core of our product: the Agent. We're hiring a Technical Lead who is deeply technical and can architect cutting-edge AI systems while remaining hands-on with implementation. You'll guide the technical direction of our platform while mentoring senior engineers and driving engineering excellence across the team. Who You Are We're seeking a dynamic Forward Deployed Engineer who thrives in fast-paced customer environments and brings deep technical expertise in AI agents. You'll work directly with enterprise clients to design, build, and deploy custom AI agent solutions while serving as the technical bridge between customers and our engineering team. You bring a "big motor"— [... source excerpt omitted ...] and energy to be first in the office, last to leave, and passionate about making customers successful. What You’ll Do Primary Focus: Deploy Production Agents Understanding the Customer Requirements and ideal target pieces for an Agent Define the success criteria for the AI agent Build and deploy production-ready AI agents that solve real business problems for enterprise customers Lead proof of concept (POC) development and transition agents from pilot to production Architect and implement custom AI agent solutions tailored to specific customer workflows and requirements Technical Implementation & Support Provide hands-on technical implementation support, including Pytho

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