Forward Deployed Engineer
mid$224K – $394K
via Ashby
About this role
Tenex builds frontier AI that works in the real world. Our engineers sit with C-suite leaders, find where AI adds the most value, and ship bleeding-edge AI to production.
We were founded in New York City in 2025. We are currently 70 people and will double by the end of the year. We build for Fortune 500 companies across media, healthcare, retail, finance, and sports.
Anthropic, OpenAI, and Cursor are partners where we turn technology into reliable systems businesses use every day.
THE ROLE
You’ll own client projects end to end: find where AI adds real value, decide the technical plan, build the whole system, and keep improving it in production. You’ll lead a few projects at a time in a pod run by an engineering manager.
We look for engineers who:…
What we'd score you on
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Skills match
For this role: aws, openai, anthropic, split
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Level fit
This role is mid-level. We check your trajectory against it.
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Domain experience
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Recency
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Location fit
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