About the role
We are looking for Forward Deployed Engineers with 3-8 years of experience to embed directly into Fortune 500 client environments and ship production AI systems that transform how businesses operate. You'll join a bootstrapped, fast-growing team (40 → 200 by year-end) that partners with Anthropic and OpenAI to solve the hardest AI transformation problems for household-name companies.
What will you be doing?
- Own end-to-end builds of AI workflows and agentic systems for enterprise clients — from architecture to production deployment
- Ramp into unfamiliar client codebases (sometimes Fortune 500 monoliths) and ship production code with minimal hand-holding
- Work directly with C-suite stakeholders (CIOs, CEOs) at major companies across finance, entertainment, CPG, and more
- Leverage cutting-edge agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) to ship at speeds that weren't possible a year ago
- Collaborate with AI Strategists to scope bets, then make them real — building systems that run when nobody from Tenex is in the room
Key Requirements
- 3-8 years of production software engineering experience with evidence of personally shipping something substantial and complex
- True full-stack engineer — must have hands-on experience writing and deploying production code (not solutions engineering or data-only roles)
- Experience with major cloud infrastructure providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure) in production or serious projects
- High agency and pace — comfortable working startup hours in-person 5 days/week in NYC, not looking for a 40hr/week role
- Strong client-facing communication skills — you'll be presenting to and partnering with enterprise engineering teams and executives
About Tenex
This AI thing, it’s real. As real as mobile, the internet, and each of the major paradigm shifts in technology that came before it. In fact, we think it’s more real. More powerful. More disruptive to how we work & how businesses operate. This leaves you with a choice. Disrupt yourself. Or be disrupted by others. Because as the cost of intelligence approaches zero, businesses will need to transition from AI-absent to AI-native if they want to stay relevant and succeed.
Required skills
Job details
Salary
$180,000 - $180,000
Location
New York, United States
Experience
3+ years
Funding
Total raised
$277M
Last stage
Series B
Investors
Founders
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.