Title: Forward Deployed AI Engineer
Company: Verdant Systems

About the role

Verdant Systems builds agentic tooling for enterprise operations teams. Forward
Deployed AI Engineers embed directly with our customers, ship production
software alongside their teams, and stay accountable for the outcome after the
handoff.

What you'll do

- Embed with a customer team for 6-12 week engagements and own delivery end to end.
- Build and ship full-stack applications: TypeScript, React, Node.js, Python, Postgres, Redis.
- Design multi-agent workflows and async job pipelines that hold up under production load.
- Stand up staging-to-production environments and own deployment, monitoring, and incident response.
- Translate ambiguous customer problems into working software within the first two weeks.
- Enable non-technical teams to adopt AI tooling without our engineers in the room.

Requirements

- 5+ years shipping production software, including significant full-stack ownership.
- Hands-on experience with LLM APIs, prompt engineering, RAG, and agentic workflows.
- Comfort with API design, auth, real-time sync, and relational databases.
- Client-facing experience; you can run a working session with a customer's staff engineers.
- Bias toward action and a portfolio of things you personally shipped.

Nice to have

- Experience orchestrating AI coding agents to accelerate delivery.
- Background in design or creative tooling.
- Prior startup or founding experience.

Compensation and benefits

Competitive salary, equity, remote-first with quarterly onsites.
