Profound

Agent Engineer

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3 days ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$140k - $200k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Understand customer goals, workflows, and AI visibility challenges.
  • Translate ambiguous customer needs into concrete, measurable agent-based use cases.
  • Design agents for AI visibility alerts, competitor ranking, content gaps, content drafting, and content optimization.
  • Configure and build agents by connecting workflow nodes, APIs, data sources, and outputs.
  • Rapidly prototype and deploy customer solutions in a forward-deployed model.
  • Own deployments end to end where possible and scope or hand off deeper technical work to Engineering.
  • Serve as the primary post-sale partner for Agents customers during deployment.
  • Document repeatable deployment patterns and provide Product and Engineering feedback on roadmap priorities.

Requirements

  • Experience in client-facing consulting, solutions, strategy, implementation, or customer-success roles.
  • Strong problem-framing skills and the ability to turn vague goals into concrete plans.
  • Technical fluency with low-code or no-code tools, workflows, scripts, or APIs without needing to be a full-time engineer.
  • Hands-on experimentation with AI tools, agents, or automation systems.
  • Ability to communicate clearly between customers and engineers and own outcomes end to end.
  • Relevant backgrounds may include strategy consulting with technical projects, solutions architecture, forward-deployed engineering, or building internal tools.
  • Experience with Cursor or Claude Code is helpful but not required.

Benefits

  • On-site work in the NYC or San Francisco office.
  • Equity and a full range of benefits and perks are included in the total compensation package.

Categories

Forward Deployed
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About Profound

201-500 employees

Profound builds a SaaS marketing intelligence platform that helps enterprise brands measure and improve how they appear in AI-driven discovery across tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity. The product delivers real-time visibility analytics, competitive intelligence, and optimization insights for search-like AI channels. The company is privately held, headquartered in New York, and is Series C–funded.

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