Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

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SENIOR FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGINEER @ VARICK AGENTS

ABOUT VARICK

Varick builds AI agents that take over real operational workflows inside the world's largest enterprises. Our forward-deployed engineers and strategists embed with client teams to map how work gets done and build POCs, then our engineers bring those agents into production. We're venture-backed, revenue-generating from day one, and already in production inside several of these companies. You'll join an elite team from Meta, AWS Bedrock, Citadel Securities, McKinsey, BCG, Stanford, and more.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Forward Deployed Engineers are the client-facing builders at Varick. You embed with enterprise stakeholders ranging from C-suite to operators on the ground. You conduct interviews with process leads, deploy process mining agents across systems of record, and iterate on agent POCs together with the client.

This is a role for people who communicate clearly, think like operators, and build like engineers. You sit across the table from a controller and map how the process actually runs (not merely how the documentation says it does), then you turn that into specs, prototypes, evals, and working agents. You don't need to be a distributed-systems engineer. You need to know what to build, prove that it works, and land it with the client.

You also need to be the person to bring the stakeholders along. You will co-create KPIs with leadership, co-create UI surfaces with process owners, and plan and execute change management initiatives.

There is an enormous difference between building a demo and running agents inside a Fortune 500 team. This role lives in that difference.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Embed with client teams across departments (from finance, sales, and IT to marketing, HR, and operations) to map how work gets done, step by step and system by system. Go beyond the golden path. Find the exceptions, the workarounds, and the impact of handoffs across teams for exception-handling
• Translate ambiguous business problems into well-framed agent workflows with clear success criteria, guardrails, and an evaluation plan, using the latest Varick toolkits and process re-engineering solutions
• Co-create KPIs with clients, identify ways to baseline them, and propose solutions for ongoing monitoring of post-deployment uplift
• Drive adoption: train the client's team, sit with the users, watch what they actually do, and continuously iterate on the agents
• Present findings, prototypes, and results directly to C-suite stakeholders. Top tier communication is a requirement for this role; simply being technical is not enough. If you don't have what it takes to command a room of the world's largest executives, you are not a good fit for this role
• Codify what works into Varick's playbooks, skill files, and broader toolkit. Share field signal with our platform team: where the agents succeed, where they fail, what the model can't do yet, and what to build next
• Build and leverage

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role. If you want to spend your day inside the platform codebase, see our Product Engineer and Infrastructure Engineer postings

• Not a pure strategy role. Our clients respect our AI-native, technical approach and repeatedly highlight how this sets us apart from consulting shops
• Not a research role. You won't train or fine-tune models
• Not implementation-by-checklist. Nobody hands you a configured product to roll out

WHY VARICK

• Early to the thesis. We bet on this category before it was obvious, and we're already working with multi-hundred-billion-dollar companies
• Real ownership, not slide-deck purgatory. If you're tired of making recommendations that never get implemented, or spending a month polishing a deck no one reads, come build something that actually ships and runs
• Direct access to operators and executives (C-suite, ops leads), with none of the layers, decks-for-decks-sake, or process overhead of a traditional firm
• You own the full loop: find the problem, frame it, scope the solution, see it ship, see it run
• Value creation in days, not quarters. An agent you scoped on Monday can be running against real invoices by the end of the month
• The most AI-native way of working you'll find. We run an agent-driven workflow end to end, and we're building the FDE agent that will run the next version of this job. You'll help build it
• High-bar team. Everyone here is someone you'll want to learn from: operators, engineers, and strategists at the top of their craft
• Small, early team. Your judgment shapes the product, the playbooks, and how Varick scales
• Meaningful equity at a stage where it still compounds

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Employment is subject to a standard confidentiality and non-disclosure agreement.