Red Cell Partners - Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed Engineer (New Stealth Startup)
Requirements
• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, including full-stack development with strong backend engineering capabilities. • Demonstrated experience building and shipping AI applications in production environments. • Strong understanding of AI agent architectures, evaluation methodologies, and the systems required to develop and operate AI agents reliably. • Experience developing scalable backend services, APIs, data pipelines, and system integrations. • Ability to design evaluation systems and use performance data to guide technical iteration. • Experience translating business and operational requirements into technical solutions. • Ability to move between solution architecture, hands-on implementation, deployment, and troubleshooting. • Strong systems-thinking and problem-solving capabilities. • Experience working directly with enterprise customers or stakeholders in complex or ambiguous environments. • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with senior stakeholders. • Ability and willingness to travel to customer locations as required. • U.S. citizenship is required. • Salary Range: $150,000-300,000 + equity. This represents the typical base salary range for this position based on experience, skills, and other factors.
Responsibilities
• Work directly with enterprise customer teams to understand their businesses, operating environments, and workflows. • Translate real operational needs into clearly defined, AI-driven solutions. • Own the end-to-end design, development, deployment, and improvement of production-grade AI agents tailored to customer-specific problems. • Build the data pipelines, integrations, and supporting systems required to deploy AI solutions within customer environments. • Develop evaluation systems that measure agent performance and use the results to drive continued improvement. • Translate complex business requirements into technical architectures, implementation plans, and measurable outcomes. • Develop deep expertise in customer domains and apply that knowledge to improve the relevance and performance of the AI systems you build. • Partner closely with Product, Platform, Research, and Engineering teams to deliver reliable, cohesive solutions. • Identify and codify reusable engineering practices, agent patterns, and technical frameworks that can support future deployments. • Translate lessons from customer deployments into actionable feedback for platform and product teams. • Diagnose technical and operational challenges in customer environments and drive issues through resolution. • Communicate technical decisions, progress, risks, and results clearly to customer stakeholders and internal teams. • You are a strong engineer who enjoys working directly with customers to solve complex, real-world problems. • You can move fluidly between understanding a customer's broader business challenge and working through the technical details required to solve it. • You are comfortable entering unfamiliar environments, learning quickly, and bringing structure to ambiguous problems. • You take ownership of outcomes and remain accountable through implementation, deployment, and continued improvement. • You focus on building solutions that work in practice, not simply producing prototypes or demonstrating technical possibilities. • You communicate clearly with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders and can build trust with senior customer leaders. • You approach customer engagement with curiosity, sound judgment, and an ability to listen before prescribing a solution. • You are comfortable balancing immediate customer needs with the development of reusable technical patterns and systems. • You work effectively across engineering, product, research, and operations teams. • You are motivated by the purpose and real-world impact of the work, not simply by access to emerging technologies. • You are comfortable traveling to customer environments as needed.
Benefits
• Our Red Cell Partners Benefits (may differ for each incubation): • For full-time roles • Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement with strong performance as the firm grows • 100% employer paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family. • Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay. • Unlimited PTO, with management approval. • Opportunities for professional development and continued learning. • Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available. • Mental health benefits are available through Tara Mind. • Cost effective GLP-1 solutions available through Crux.
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