Tenex
Engineering
ForwardDeployedEngineer
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“Forward Deployed Engineer at Tenex. Skills: AI, Software development, DevOps, Cloud. Own features end-to-end. Design agent systems”
What You'll Achieve.
Ship production AI systems; Workflow running Monday morning; Drive business outcome; Client tells story
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis
Travel monthly, Work in person
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
3 to 8 years building production software, AI as core part of work, Track record of turning complex problems into clean, scalable systems, Use agentic coding tools, Intellectual curiosity and range, Track how AI landscape evolves, Operational discipline, Manage parallel workstreams, Prioritize well, Context-switch cleanly, Sustain output over time, Collaborative rigor, Hold self and others to high standard, Contribute actively to team knowledge, Make people around you more effective
Nice to Have
Public artifacts of work, Open source contributions, Side project people use, Blog post or talk on applied AI engineering, Experience shipping production agentic system
What You'll Do.
Own features end-to-end
Partner with Strategists
Partner with client engineers
Use agentic coding tools
Ramp into unfamiliar codebases
Design systems reliable
Design systems auditable
Adopt workflow refinements
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Client engineering teams; Partner teams; AI Strategists; Solution Architects
Full Job Description
ABOUT TENEX The Fortune 500 is rebuilding itself right now. Every company over a billion in revenue is asking the same question: what does it mean to run this business if AI does half the work in five years? Most don't know how to answer. That's why they call us. Tenex is the partner ambitious companies hire when the stakes are too high to get AI wrong. We embed elite teams directly into their operations, find the bets that actually move the business, and ship the work that makes them AI-native. The clients are sharp. The problems are unforgiving. The work has to land. We get to do this work alongside the people building the frontier. Anthropic and OpenAI are formal partners, and we sit in the room with their Applied AI teams on real client problems. Vercel, Lovable, and a growing list of the most important companies in AI are partners too. We were the partner Anthropic named on the Claude for Small Business launch https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-small-business, delivering AI fluency training in ten US cities, and workflows we built ship inside Claude for Small Business https://claude.com/solutions/small-business today. The bar for joining is high. We hire people with high agency and high urgency, who care less about where they trained and more about what they've built. If you want to spend the next chapter of your career shipping production AI systems alongside the best engineers in the industry and the labs building the technology, this is the place. ABOUT THE ROLE At Tenex, Strategists scope and prioritize the bets. Forward Deployed Engineers make them real. You are the engineer who walks into a client codebase and ships the AI workflow that changes how thousands of people do their job. The plan becomes the running system because you built it. You work close to the problem and close to the client. Architecture decisions are yours. The code is yours. The credit and the consequences are yours. You partner with Strategists to choose the right bets, with
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