Tenex Startup

Forward Deployed Engineer

New York, NY On-site $180K Mid (3-5 yrs) Added 2 days ago

About the role

Tenex embeds elite engineering teams directly in Fortune 500 companies building production AI systems. Anthropic and OpenAI are formal partners. FDE walks into client codebases and ships AI workflows -- owns architecture, implementation, and production deployment end-to-end. Uses agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) to maximize throughput. Variable pay uncapped: $180K guaranteed base with quarterly bonuses scaling with output (562.5 story points quota; $80/point above quota). 3-8 years production software experience; AI-forward development mindset. Travel to client sites ~once/month. NYC office 5 days/week.

Industry

AI consulting / enterprise AI implementation

Top skills for this role

  • production AI/agentic system development
  • enterprise client delivery
  • agentic coding tool proficiency

Languages

not specified

Frameworks & tools

Claude CodeCodexCursoragentic coding tools

AI / ML skills

production agentic AI systemsLLM integrationenterprise AI workflow automation

Customer skills

Fortune 500 client-facing engineering, enterprise stakeholder management

Domain knowledge

enterprise AI, insurance, healthcare, private equity

Travel: ~once a month to client sites
Equity: not mentioned

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