Nebius
Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise - Tavily
New York, United States; United States · Mid · Full-time
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$13,961 more — $193,461 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $193,461 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- This is a full-time, on-site role based in our New York office.
- You'll also serve as a critical bridge between the field and our Product and Engineering teams, translating enterprise needs into roadmap signal.
- Monitor customer API usage patterns and recommend improvements to increase reliability, latency, coverage, and overall value.
Responsibilities
- You'll own the technical relationship across the customer lifecycle, helping enterprise teams move from early use case exploration to deployed, scalable agentic applications.
- Lead technical discovery and solution design during pre-sales and expansion conversations.
- Scope, build, and deliver proofs of concept that demonstrate clear business and technical value.
- Partner with customer engineering, data, product, and AI teams to move use cases from prototype to production.
- Partner closely with Sales, Customer Success, Product, and Engineering to drive adoption, retention, and expansion across strategic accounts.
Requirements
- Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and executive stakeholders, including engineering leaders, product teams, AI teams, and technical decision-makers.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to turn complex technical concepts into clear recommendations.
- Experience with vector databases such as Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, Qdrant, or similar systems.
- Experience with enterprise AI use cases in financial services, legal, consulting, enterprise SaaS, sales, marketing, or internal knowledge management.
Nice to have
- Translate recurring customer needs, blockers, and technical patterns into clear product and roadmap input.
- Represent Tavily in customer architecture reviews, executive technical conversations, implementation check-ins, and post-deployment reviews.
- 3+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in a customer-facing technical role such as Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Architect, Solutions Engineer, Sales Engineer, or Technical Consultant.
- Strong hands-on engineering ability, especially with Python, APIs, backend systems, and production software development.
Skills
- Experience working with major agent or LLM orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, or CrewAI.
Compensation
- We offer competitive compensation packages.
- The actual compensation offered within the listed range will be determined based on job-related factors, including experience, skills, qualifications, and the level at which the candidate is hired, consistent with applicable law.
- Pay Transparency
- We offer competitive compensation and benefits packages.
- Actual compensation will be determined based on job-related factors, including experience, skills, qualifications, the level at which the candidate is hired, and geographic location, consistent with applicable law.
- Base Compensation Range
Benefits
- Career growth and learning opportunities
- Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects
Company info
- Forward Deployed Engineering owns how Tavily shows up technically in the field.
- The team sits at the intersection of customers, Product, Engineering, Sales, Partnerships, and Customer Success.
- The Enterprise FDE motion focuses on Tavily's highest-value customers and strategic enterprise opportunities - from technical discovery and solution design through proof of concept, production rollout, adoption, and expansion.
- Work directly with enterprise customers to understand their AI use cases, technical architecture, success criteria, and deployment requirements.
- As a Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise, you'll work directly with Tavily's largest and most strategic customers to design, prototype, and deploy production-grade AI systems powered by Tavily's API.
- Experience working with enterprise customers, including technical discovery, POCs, solution design, stakeholder management, and production rollout.
- We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace and to providing equal employment opportunities in all aspects of employment.
Equal opportunity
- Equal Opportunity Statement:
- equal opportunity employer.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the country in which they apply and will be required to provide proof of employment eligibility as a condition of hire.
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