Tessera compresses ERP modernization from years to weeks with governed, multi-agent AI. Backed by a16z.
About the role
Run deep process discovery with customers — break down complex, ambiguous, cross-system problems into well-defined solutions Build lightweight prototypes and applications that showcase Tessera's AI agents in real enterprise scenarios Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
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/or JavaScript/TypeScript/Rust
- 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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