Forward Deployed Engineer

About the role

About Us

Trase is the operating system for high-stakes environments, providing end-to-end solutions for deploying, managing, and optimizing AI within industries where security, governance, and data sovereignty are non-negotiable.

Our HIPAA- and SOC 2-compliant platform bridges the “last mile” of AI adoption, empowering sectors like healthcare and national security to run trustworthy, predictable AI agents across any model or environment—whether in the cloud, on-prem, or at the edge—with unified policy enforcement, continuous monitoring, and fully immutable audit trails.

Trase’s suite of products includes Origin, its agentic operating system; Leagues, its marketplace for specialized, configurable, ready-to-deploy agents; and Arena, where developers build, evaluate, and package the agents that run on Origin. The company has repeatedly topped Hugging Face’s GAIA Leaderboard for Generalized AI Assistants, placing it firmly at the forefront of AI-agent innovation.

About the Role

As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Trase, you’ll build and deploy AI agents and applications that solve real customer problems using Trase OS. You’ll join Leagues, our industry verticals team, supporting customers in healthcare, state and local government and education (SLED), financial services, or retail. Your focus may be one or more of these verticals; experience in all four is not required.

This is a hands-on software engineering role with direct customer ownership. You’ll work with users to understand their workflows, turn unclear requirements into technical plans, and take solutions from prototype through production. You’ll partner closely with Product, ML, and the Origin and Arena engineering teams to build on Trase OS and feed customer needs back into the platform.

We are hiring at Mid, Senior and Staff levels. Level will reflect your demonstrated engineering depth, independence, and scope of ownership.

Why This Role is Needed

Customer value depends on how well AI works within existing systems, data, and day-to-day operations. Leagues connects Trase OS to those environments and turns platform capabilities into solutions customers can use and trust.

This role exists to:

- Deliver working solutions that improve customer workflows and produce measurable outcomes.

- Bridge customer needs and platform engineering, identifying gaps early and shaping practical solutions.

- Turn successful deployments into reusable integrations and patterns that help future customers launch faster.

What makes this role challenging

- Customer environments vary in data quality, integration options, security requirements, and operational readiness.

- AI behavior must be evaluated against real workflows, including failure cases, escalation paths, and human review.

- You must balance delivery speed with reliability and maintainability, while deciding what belongs in a customer solution versus the shared platform.