Tavily

Forward Deployed Engineer

Tavily
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7 months ago

Responsibilities

  • Work directly with customers to understand use cases and build custom integrations using Tavily’s API.
  • Participate in pre-sales activities, including sales calls, technical discovery, and proof-of-concept scoping.
  • Design and implement prototypes, proofs of concept, and production-ready systems alongside client teams.
  • Monitor API usage patterns and recommend improvements to reliability, efficiency, and coverage.
  • Collaborate with internal teams to influence roadmap priorities based on customer needs and recurring technical challenges.
  • Build reusable technical content, including documentation, reference architectures, internal tools, and templates.
  • Represent Tavily in customer conversations, architecture reviews, post-deployment tracking, and partner-facing technical engagements.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of software engineering experience, ideally in a customer-facing, consulting, partner-focused, Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Architect, or Sales Engineer role.
  • Strong engineering skills and experience with the modern agent stack.
  • Deep understanding of agent architectures, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), large language models (LLMs), and context engineering.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and comfort working directly with technical stakeholders at enterprises and partners.
  • Ability to learn quickly, work autonomously, and operate effectively in a fast-paced startup environment.
  • Based in New York City, Austin, or San Francisco, or willing to relocate.

Benefits

  • Full-time, on-site role based in the New York office.
  • Candidates may be based in New York City, Austin, or San Francisco, or willing to relocate.

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Forward Deployed
Tavily

About Tavily

51-200 employees

Tavily builds a specialized web search and retrieval API for developers and enterprises to ground LLMs and AI agents with fresh, trustworthy online data. Its platform powers Retrieval-Augmented Generation and real-time reasoning for use cases like research copilots, sales assistants, and internal knowledge tools. Founded in 2024 and based in New York, Tavily operates as part of Nebius, focusing on connecting AI systems to current web content at scale.

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