Role overview

TribalScale is seeking a Forward Deployed Agile Software Engineer to embed with clients and internal teams, working at the intersection of software engineering, artificial intelligence, and product delivery. In this position, you will partner directly with organizations to understand complex business challenges, design solutions, and deploy production-quality software that creates immediate, measurable impact. You will operate as both a hands-on engineer and a trusted technical advisor, translating business needs into working AI-enabled products.

Key responsibilities

Partner with clients to understand their objectives, workflows, technical environments, data, and operational constraints.
Translate ambiguous business challenges into clear technical requirements, solution architectures, prototypes, and delivery plans.
Design and build AI-enabled applications, agentic workflows, developer tools, APIs, data pipelines, and full-stack products.
Engineer the infrastructure surrounding AI models, including prompts, tools, context, memory, permissions, runtime controls, observability, and feedback mechanisms.
Build and refine agent loops that support planning, tool selection, execution, observation, reflection, recovery, and termination.
Model complex workflows as graphs, state machines, or other orchestration patterns that coordinate models, tools, data, systems, and human approvals.
Create evaluation frameworks that measure task completion, accuracy, reliability, safety, latency, cost, and user value.
Develop rapid prototypes and proofs of concept, validate them with real users and representative evaluations, and evolve successful ideas into secure, scalable products.
Integrate solutions with client systems, enterprise data sources, cloud platforms, and third-party services.
Implement appropriate safeguards, permission boundaries, approval steps, and fallbacks for autonomous and semi-autonomous systems.
Instrument AI applications so teams can inspect traces, understand intermediate states, diagnose failures, and improve system performance.
Identify and address failure modes such as hallucinations, looping, brittle tool calls, context loss, prompt injection, non-deterministic behavior, and unsafe actions.
Troubleshoot complex technical and operational issues in client environments.
Communicate technical decisions, risks, trade-offs, and progress clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Collaborate with product managers, designers, engineers, data specialists, security teams, and client stakeholders throughout the delivery lifecycle.
Establish strong engineering practices, including automated testing, documentation, observability, security, and continuous delivery.
Capture reusable patterns, components, and insights that strengthen TribalScale’s engineering capabilities and future client engagements.
Support technical discovery, solution demonstrations, workshops, and pre-sales conversations when needed.

Requirements

Professional experience building and deploying production-grade software, ideally including AI-powered or agentic systems.
Strong proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or another language commonly used to build AI applications, platforms, and developer tooling.
A practical understanding of harness engineering, including designing the infrastructure, context, tools, permissions, controls, and feedback mechanisms that enable AI agents to operate reliably.
Experience building or working with agent loops, including planning, tool selection, execution, observation, reflection, recovery, and termination.
Familiarity with graph-based orchestration, state machines, and multi-step workflows for coordinating agents, tools, data, and human approvals.
Experience designing evaluation systems for AI applications, including task-based benchmarks, regression suites, model-graded evaluations, and human review.

What makes this role worth considering

This position offers the opportunity to work directly with clients on transformative digital challenges that combine software engineering with emerging artificial intelligence technologies. You will have exposure across the full technology stack and the chance to see your work create immediate, measurable impact in real-world client environments. TribalScale values curiosity, ownership, and practical innovation—making this ideal for engineers who thrive in dynamic environments and want to turn ambiguity into action.