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Forward Deployed Engineer

Trase · Seattle, WA (Preferred) or McLean, VA or Remote (USA) · Remote

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About Trase

Trase builds governed AI agents for healthcare, government, and enterprise — auditable, secure, and deployed where your data already lives. Backed by Virginia Venture Partners.

About the role

As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Trase, you’ll build and deploy AI agents and applications that solve real customer problems using Trase OS. You’ll join Leagues , our industry verticals team, supporting customers in healthcare, state and local government and education (SLED), financial services, or retail. Your focus may be one or more of these verticals; experience in all four is not required. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Experience building and shipping production software, with strong coding, testing, debugging, and API design fundamentals
  • Proficiency in a modern language such as Python, Java or TypeScript, and experience with databases, backend services, and external integrations
  • Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure, containers, CI/CD, and monitoring, ability to troubleshoot deployed applications
  • Ability to translate customer needs into implementable work and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Practical understanding of LLM applications or AI agents, including their limitations, evaluation, and safe interaction with customer data and systems
  • Ownership of delivery and quality, curiosity about customer operations, and comfort working through incomplete requirements
More about this role

Trase is the operating system for high-stakes environments, providing end-to-end solutions for deploying, managing, and optimizing AI within industries where security, governance, and data sovereignty are non-negotiable.

Our HIPAA- and SOC 2-compliant platform bridges the “last mile” of AI adoption, empowering sectors like healthcare and national security to run trustworthy, predictable AI agents across any model or environment—whether in the cloud, on-prem, or at the edge—with unified policy enforcement, continuous monitoring, and fully immutable audit trails.

Trase’s suite of products includes Origin, its agentic operating system; Leagues, its marketplace for specialized, configurable, ready-to-deploy agents; and Arena, where developers build, evaluate, and package the agents that run on Origin. The company has repeatedly topped Hugging Face’s GAIA Leaderboard for Generalized AI Assistants, placing it firmly at the forefront of AI-agent innovation.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Trase, you’ll build and deploy AI agents and applications that solve real customer problems using Trase OS. You’ll join Leagues , our industry verticals team, supporting customers in healthcare, state...

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