Tessera Labs
Forward-Deployed Engineer
New York City Office · Mid
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About the role
- Office Locations: East Coast; San Francisco (Hybrid); San José HQ (Hybrid) SoCal, West Coast, Texas, Arizona Remote work: Tessera is a remote company.
- Tessera Forward-Deployed Engineers are technical AI engineers with strong product intuition.
- Your ownership will span customer outcomes and product strategy across both short- and long-term horizons: ship the customer outcome in front of you now, and shape the product's capabilities for the long term.
Responsibilities
- Build lightweight prototypes and applications that showcase Tessera's AI agents in real enterprise scenarios
- Partner with GTM to frame technical boundaries in sales engagements and produce technical collateral, including Statements of Work
- Collaborate with Infra and Engineering to architect implementations that scale across high-volume, business-critical processes
- Carry field signal back to Product and Engineering, helping shape what we build
- Build durable customer relationships and proactively surface new automation opportunities throughout each engagement
- 2+ years building software in a high-ownership, customer-facing capacity - as a Forward-Deployed Engineer, Solutions Engineer, founding/early engineer at a high-growth startup, or technical founder
- Experience building production-grade AI systems (experience at a frontier AI lab or top AI application company is a strong signal)
Requirements
- Deployed Engineers are proactive problem-solvers with a keen ability to see around corners.
- Required for customer engagements, with a wide variance per customer, of up to 50%
- Strong hands-on experience with Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript/Rust
Benefits
- Relocation stipend:
Company info
- You are the technical arm of our pre-sales and post-sales motions, embedding in Fortune 500 customers whose expectations were set by a world before AI.
- What makes this not a consulting role: we are a product company.
- Run deep process discovery with customers - break down complex, ambiguous, cross-system problems into well-defined solutions
- Iterate with customers and cross-functional partners to drive adoption from pilot to full production
- Lead training and workshop sessions on-site to upskill customers on the platform
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