Intent Lab
Posted 2mo ago

Agent Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer

Intent Lab
Sunnyvale, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Responsibilities
  • leading deployments
  • building agents
  • driving adoption
Requirements
  • 3+ years software engineering experience
  • Hands-on LLM/agent work
  • Distributed systems
  • Containers, CI/CD
  • Cloud platforms, and proficiency in modern languages
  • Strong communication and customer orientation
Technical tools mentioned
LLMscontainersCI/CDAWSGCPAzurePythonTypeScriptGo

Job description

We are looking for highly capable and customer-obsessed Agent Engineers / Forward Deployed Engineers to lead technical deployments of IntentLab inside large engineering organizations. This role requires strong engineering fundamentals, hands-on agent experience, sharp customer instincts, and the ability to operate independently in ambiguous, high-stakes environments.

 

Key Responsibilities

Customer Deployments

  • Lead end-to-end technical deployments of IntentLab inside customer engineering organizations.

  • Wire our system into customer codebases, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure.

  • Own the customer technical lifecycle from first integration through steady-state operation.

Agent Engineering

  • Build and tune custom agent behaviors, tool integrations, and evaluation harnesses for each customer's backend.

  • Debug agent performance across distributed systems and unfamiliar production code.

  • Validate integrations and maintain reliable system performance in customer environments.

Customer Partnership

  • Lead demos, pilots, and technical workshops with engineers, platform leads, and CTOs.

  • Build deep relationships with customer engineering teams and drive adoption from the inside.

  • Translate customer pain and usage patterns into product and research priorities.

Execution & Craft

  • Bias toward shipping fixes and features yourself rather than filing tickets.

  • Write crisp documentation, reference integrations, and playbooks that turn one-off wins into repeatable ones.

  • Operate at the edges — name problems, propose solutions, drive to done.

 

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong foundation in backend or infrastructure work.

  • Hands-on experience with LLMs and agent systems: prompt engineering, tool use, evals, multi-step orchestration.

  • Familiarity with distributed systems, containers, CI/CD, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).

  • Proficiency in at least one modern language (e.g., Python, TypeScript, Go).

  • Strong written and verbal communication — comfortable with senior engineers and executives alike.

  • Self-directed by default; comfortable with ambiguity, context switching, and sustained intensity.

  • Based in the Bay Area or willing to relocate (onsite role).

 

What We Value

  • Customer empathy and end-to-end ownership.

  • Bias toward execution over planning to execute.

  • Technical curiosity and exploratory rigor.

  • Pragmatism over over-engineering.

  • Grit in high-intensity, ambiguous environments.

About Intent Lab

Builds autonomous AI agents for software engineering.

Year founded
2026
Employees
10
Organization type
Private
Latest investment
Funding Round (2026)
Headquarters
US

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