Forward Deployed Agile Software Engineer

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><h1><strong>Shape the Future with TribalScale</strong></h1> <p>TribalScale is a digital innovation firm that helps organizations adapt and thrive in a rapidly changing world. We partner with clients to build transformative digital products, modernize technology platforms, and apply emerging technologies—including artificial intelligence—to meaningful business challenges.<br>Our teams work closely with clients from strategy through execution. We value curiosity, ownership, practical innovation, and people who are comfortable turning ambiguity into action.</p> <p><strong>Our Digital Expertise</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Transformation Experts:</strong> We transform traditional business models into agile, AI-powered ecosystems.</li> <li><strong>Strategic Visionaries:</strong> We navigate the uncharted waters of technological evolution.</li> <li><strong>Product Virtuosos:</strong> We orchestrate the creation of world-class digital solutions.</li> <li><strong>Code Optimizers:</strong> We leverage AI to refine and perfect digital systems.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Our Technological Toolkit</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Mobile &amp; Web Development: </strong>(iOS, Android, React Native, React, Node.js)</li> <li><strong>Voice-Activated Platforms:</strong> (Amazon Alexa, Google Home)</li> <li><strong>Connected Ecosystems: </strong>(Cars and Homes)</li> <li><strong>Streaming Platforms:</strong> (Roku, Fire TV, Android TV, tvOS)</li> </ul> <p><strong>The TribalScale Professional</strong></p> <p>You thrive in challenging environments where innovation is key. Your passion for technology is matched only by your drive to redefine its limits. You seek more than a job; you seek a calling—a chance to make a lasting impact on the digital landscape.</p></div><div id="D01KC6XJASC-1785954240.423659-thread-list-Thread_1785954292.462149"> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <h2>The Opportunity</h2> <div>TribalScale is looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to work at the intersection of software engineering, artificial intelligence, product development, and client delivery.<br>In this role, you will embed with client and internal teams to understand complex business problems, rapidly design solutions, and deploy production-quality software in real-world environments. You will operate as both a hands-on engineer and a trusted technical partner—translating business needs into working products while helping clients make sound technology decisions.<br>You will be expected to understand more than models and prompts. You will help design the systems around AI models: the harnesses, agent loops, state graphs, tools, context, evaluations, observability, permissions, and human controls required to make AI applications useful and reliable in production.</div> <div><br>This role is ideal for an adaptable engineer who enjoys direct customer interaction, can move comfortably between discovery and delivery, and wants to see their work create immediate, measurable impact.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <h2>What You’ll Do</h2> <ul> <li>Partner directly with clients to understand their objectives, workflows, technical environments, data, and operational constraints.</li> <li>Translate ambiguous business challenges into clear technical requirements, solution architectures, prototypes, and delivery plans.</li> <li>Design and build AI-enabled applications, agentic workflows, developer tools, APIs, data pipelines, and full-stack products.</li> <li>Engineer the harnesses around AI models, including prompts, tools, context, memory, permissions, runtime controls, observability, and feedback mechanisms.</li> <li>Build and refine agent loops that support planning, tool selection, execution, observation, reflection, recovery, and termination.</li> <li>Model complex workflows as graphs, state machines, or other orchestration patterns that coordinate models, tools, data, systems, and human approvals.</li> <li>Create evaluation frameworks that measure task completion, accuracy, reliability, safety, latency, cost, and user value.</li> <li>Develop rapid prototypes and proofs of concept, validate them with real users and representative evaluations, and evolve successful ideas into secure, scalable products.</li> <li>Integrate solutions with client systems, enterprise data sources, cloud platforms, and third-party services.</li> <li>Work across the technology stack, contributing wherever needed—from user interfaces and backend services to AI infrastructure, data workflows, and deployment pipelines.</li> <li>Implement appropriate safeguards, permission boundaries, approval steps, and fallbacks for autonomous and semi-autonomous systems.</li> <li>Instrument AI applications so teams can inspect traces, understand intermediate states, diagnose failures, and improve system performance.</li> <li>Identify and address failure modes such as hallucinations, looping, brittle tool calls, context loss, prompt injection, non-deterministic behavior, and unsafe actions.</li> <li>Troubleshoot complex technical and operational issues in client environments.</li> <li>Communicate technical decisions, risks, trade-offs, and progress clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.</li> <li>Collaborate with product managers, designers, engineers, data specialists, security teams, and client stakeholders throughout the delivery lifecycle.</li> <li>Establish strong engineering practices, including automated testing, documentation, observability, security, and continuous delivery.</li> <li>Capture reusable patterns, components, and insights that strengthen TribalScale’s engineering capabilities and future client engagements.</li> <li>Support technical discovery, solution demonstrations, workshops, and pre-sales conversations when needed.</li> </ul> <h2>What You Bring</h2> <ul> <li>Professional experience building and deploying production-grade software, ideally including AI-powered or agentic systems.</li> <li>Strong pro