Forward Deployed Engineer
Trase Systems14 hours ago
Remote, United States or Seattle, WA, USAMid Level / Senior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$150k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Work directly with customers to map workflows, identify AI applications, define scope, success measures, and acceptance criteria.
- Build production-quality AI agents, applications, APIs, integrations, backend services, and user interfaces using Trase OS.
- Integrate customer systems, data sources, and identity providers and support deployment in customer or Trase-managed environments.
- Own delivery through testing, deployment, customer validation, and operational handoff while surfacing risks and dependencies.
- Build evaluations, automated tests, observability, human review, and escalation into agent workflows.
- Validate quality, latency, cost, and reliability and apply access controls, data-handling policies, and audit logging.
- Debug production issues across application, data, integration, and infrastructure layers and create practical runbooks.
- Contribute reusable components, product feedback, and platform improvements to Origin and Arena.
Requirements
- Experience building and shipping production software with strong coding, testing, debugging, and API design fundamentals.
- Proficiency in a modern language such as Python, Java, or TypeScript, plus experience with databases, backend services, and external integrations.
- Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure, containers, CI/CD, and monitoring, with the ability to troubleshoot deployed applications.
- Ability to translate customer needs into implementable work and communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Practical understanding of LLM applications or AI agents, including limitations, evaluation, and safe interaction with customer data and systems.
- Experience with forward deployed, product, full stack, or solutions engineering and substantial production coding responsibility is preferred.
- Domain experience in healthcare, SLED, financial services, or retail; sensitive-data, regulated-environment, agent orchestration, retrieval, LLM evaluation, enterprise identity, or complex integration experience is preferred.
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.
- 14 weeks of paid maternity and paternity leave at normal pay.
- Unlimited PTO with management approval.
- Professional development and continued learning opportunities.
- Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives.
- Mental health benefits through Tara Mind.
- Full-time role with some travel to customers potentially required.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Trase Systems
Trase Systems builds an enterprise platform for creating, deploying, and operating autonomous AI agents in regulated sectors such as healthcare, national security, and energy. It sells software and services that let large organizations integrate agent applications into existing systems with governance, security, and compliance controls. The company was co-founded in 2023 by Joe Laws and Grant Verstandig and is privately held.