# Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Agent) at Cresta

- Company: Cresta
- What the company does: Save money, increase revenue, and build customer loyalty with the only unified platform for human and AI agents that transforms every customer experience. Backed by Greylock, Sequoia and a16z.
- Company website: https://cresta.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: United States (Remote)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $185K to $235K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2025-06-12
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/cresta/jobs/4759347008
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/cresta-senior-forward-deployed-engineer-ai-agent/

## About the role

At Cresta, the AI Agent team is on a mission to create state-of-the-art AI Agents that solve practical problems for our customers. We are focused on leveraging the latest technologies in Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI Agent systems, while ensuring that the solutions we develop are cost-effective, secure, and reliable.

## What they're looking for

- Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Experience: 3+ years of full-time working experience in software development/Consulting, AI/ML engineering, or Forward Deployed Engineering
- Programming Skills: Proficiency in Python and Golang, with the ability to write clean, efficient code
- AI/ML Knowledge: Familiarity with AI/ML concepts. Hands-on experience with large language models (LLMs), and prompt engineering techniques are strongly preferred
- AI Agent Frameworks: Strong understanding of general AI agent frameworks, function calling, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Hands-on experience of building such a system is strongly preferred
- Cloud & DevOps: Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and DevOps practices (CI/CD, containerization, monitoring)

Tags: Engineering