Cresta

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Agent)

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5 months ago
Remote, AustraliaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Develop, configure, deploy, and optimize AI agents using Cresta's AI platform and tools.
  • Build integrations between AI agents and external systems such as APIs, databases, and CRMs.
  • Optimize agent performance and troubleshoot issues in complex enterprise environments.
  • Gather technical requirements and translate customer business needs into AI agent solutions.
  • Conduct interactive demos and create proof-of-concepts for prospective customers.
  • Define milestones, create implementation plans, and coordinate execution with internal teams.
  • Identify product gaps, build custom tooling, and provide deployment feedback to product and engineering teams.
  • Collaborate with product managers and internal engineers to define agent goals and improve product capabilities.
  • Advise customers on AI agent architecture, security, scalability, adoption, and usage best practices.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • 3+ years of full-time experience in software development, consulting, AI/ML engineering, or Forward Deployed Engineering.
  • Proficiency in Python and Go.
  • Familiarity with AI/ML concepts and hands-on experience with LLMs and prompt engineering techniques are strongly preferred.
  • Understanding of AI agent frameworks, function calling, and retrieval-augmented generation, with hands-on experience building such systems strongly preferred.
  • Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure and DevOps practices.
  • Hands-on experience integrating systems through APIs, webhooks, and data pipelines.
  • Excellent communication and project management skills.
  • Ability to apply data-driven decision-making, A/B testing, and performance monitoring.
  • Ability to collaborate cross-functionally with product managers and engineers.

Benefits

  • Medical benefits designed to fit employees' stages of life.
  • Flexible vacation time.
  • Paid parental leave.

Categories

AI ApplicationsForward Deployed
Cresta

About Cresta

501-1,000 employees

Cresta builds a generative AI platform for contact centers, combining AI agents, real-time agent assistance, conversation intelligence, and quality/coaching tools. It sells enterprise software to customer-support and sales organizations to automate and improve conversations across voice and digital channels. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, the privately held company counts brands such as Alaska Airlines, Cox Communications, Intuit, United Airlines, and Marriott among its customers.

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