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Forward-Deployed Engineer

Tessera Labs · New York City Office · Remote

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About Tessera Labs

Tessera compresses ERP modernization from years to weeks with governed, multi-agent AI. Backed by a16z.

About the role

Write code and build production software on top of the Tessera platform Run deep process discovery with customers — break down complex, ambiguous, cross-system problems into well-defined solutions

What they're looking for

  • 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
  • Strong hands-on experience with Python and JavaScript/TypeScript
  • Experience building production-grade AI systems (experience at a frontier AI lab or top AI application company is a strong signal)
  • A track record of taking ambiguous, high-stakes problems from zero to shipped
  • Strong communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • The ability to operate effectively under ambiguity and fast-moving deployments
More about this role

Office Locations: East Coast; San Francisco (Hybrid); San José HQ (Hybrid) SoCal, West Coast, Texas, Arizona

Remote work: Tessera is a remote company.

Travel : Required for customer engagements, with a wide variance per customer, of up to 50%

Deployment at Customer Site : Up to 2-3 days a week at customer site depending on customer and phase of engagement

Relocation stipend: Provided

As a Forward-Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Tessera, you will drive how global enterprises deploy AI at scale. You will own our most strategic customers and deployments, building and operationalizing AI automation in a category with no established playbook — a role where outcomes are asymmetric and a single person can be decisive. 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. The solutions you build and ship will replace and augment mission-critical workflows in production that previously consumed thousands of human hours and added months or years to billion-dollar project timelines.

Tessera Forward-Deployed Engineers are technical AI engineers with strong product intuition. You will develop...

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