Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed Engineer (New Stealth Startup)
Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm focused on building and investing in rapidly scalable technology-led companies across healthcare, cyber, and national security sectors. They are launching a new startup aimed at transforming how mission-critical organizations adopt AI, particularly in healthcare, government, and other regulated industries. The startup's platform helps organizations convert institutional knowledge into intelligence assets, enhancing the accuracy, reliability, and impact of AI in real-world workflows. The team comprises builders, researchers, and operators dedicated to assisting customers in creating, measuring, and continuously improving AI capabilities they can own and control.
The Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed Engineer will work directly with enterprise customers to understand their businesses and workflows, translating operational needs into production-grade AI solutions. This remote, United States-based role combines software engineering, AI development, solution design, and customer engagement. The engineer will be part of a small deployment team, managing the full technical lifecycle from problem definition and data pipeline construction to evaluation design, AI agent deployment, and iterative improvement. Travel to customer locations will be required as needed.
Key responsibilities include collaborating with enterprise customer teams to comprehend their operations, translating real-world needs into AI-driven solutions, and overseeing the end-to-end design, development, deployment, and enhancement of production-grade AI agents tailored to specific customer challenges. The engineer will build data pipelines, integrations, and supporting systems for deploying AI solutions within customer environments, develop evaluation systems to measure agent performance, and translate complex business requirements into technical architectures and implementation plans. Additionally, the role involves developing deep expertise in customer domains to improve AI system relevance and performance, partnering with Product, Platform, Research, and Engineering teams to deliver cohesive solutions, and identifying reusable engineering practices and technical frameworks for future deployments. The engineer will also provide actionable feedback from customer deployments to platform and product teams, diagnose technical and operational challenges in customer environments, and communicate technical decisions, progress, risks, and results clearly to both customer stakeholders and internal teams.
Candidates should have at least 3 years of professional software engineering experience, including full-stack development with strong backend engineering capabilities. Demonstrated experience in building and shipping production-grade AI agents, data pipelines, and integrations is essential. Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, or similar is required, along with experience in deploying AI solutions within customer environments. Strong problem-solving skills, the ability to translate complex business requirements into technical solutions, and excellent communication skills for engaging with both technical and non-technical stakeholders are necessary. Candidates should be comfortable working in ambiguous environments, taking ownership of outcomes, and traveling to customer environments as needed.
The salary range for this position is between $150,000 and $300,000 per year, depending on experience and qualifications. Additional benefits include health insurance, 401(k) with equity incentives, unlimited paid time off, professional development opportunities, and maternity/paternity leave.
Red Cell Partners fosters a culture of innovation and impact, aiming to address the nation's most pressing problems through technology. The company offers opportunities for rapid advancement and career growth, especially for individuals who demonstrate strong performance as the firm expands.