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You build AI agents and search integrations with our customers and take them to production. After qualification, you partner with the Solution Consultant and customer engineers to refine the architecture and agree on success criteria. You build the first working version against the customer's real queries, workflows, and codebase, and prove it on their evaluation set. You lead the implementation through production deployment and an agreed handoff, equipping the customer's engineers to operate and extend what you build. A typical engagement lasts 12 weeks.\nOn each engagement, you own these technical decisions:\nRefining the implementation architecture.\nChoosing the appropriate orchestration approach.\nDefining evaluations with the customer.\nNegotiating technical scope and sequencing.\nDeciding what can be reused and what needs to remain customer-specific.\nAs the first member of the team, you help craft the strategy for the FDE function. That covers how we scope and run engagements, the playbook the team works from, and who we hire next.\nThe role is based in New York or San Francisco, 3 days a week in the office. This role reports to the Director of Solution Consulting. You do not carry a sales quota.\nBase pay is $170K to $235K, depending on level. The package adds 10% to 15% variable pay and equity.\nResponsibilities\nTurn the customer's goal into a working flow of Search, Extract, and Web Search Agent calls, wired into the customer's own code.\nBuild the first version on the customer's real queries, side by side with the customer's engineer.\nDefine representative evaluation sets and success criteria with the customer. Benchmark quality, latency, and cost as you iterate, and instrument production workflows to detect failures and regressions.\nWrite the orchestration code that keeps the flow stable in production, with fan-out, dedupe, retries, and cost caps.\nEmbed Nimble in the customer's agent through our MCP server, our SDKs, or the API, on a schedule or on demand.\nPresent results to the customer's engineers and executives, and record the technical win with the Solution Consultant.\nWrite the runbook, train the customer's engineer, and hand the account to Customer Success.\nIdentify recurring customer needs and turn successful implementations into reusable integrations, evaluation tools, reference applications, and product improvements.\nShape the FDE function: the engagement model, the entry and exit criteria, the playbook, and the profile of the next hires.\nRequirements\nTechnical expertise\nYou write production Python and can read and change TypeScript.\nYou have shipped and operated LLM-powered applications for real users, and can explain how you handled failures and managed latency and cost at each step.\nYou have designed or improved evaluations for an LLM or other nondeterministic system, and used the results to make engineering decisions.\nYou have built tools for an agent to call, through MCP, function calling or an equivalent.\nExperience and skills\nYou have 4+ years of software engineering and can show LLM or agent work you shipped, such as a repo, a live product or a case study.\nYou have worked directly with customers or external partners to scope and deliver technical projects, whether as an FDE, software engineer, solutions engineer, consultant, or founder.\nYou can run a discovery call with a VP and debug a failing run with an engineer on the same day.\nYou are comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change in a fast-paced startup.\nBonus points\nYou have worked on retrieval and RAG, including hybrid search, reranking, and freshness.\nYou have built with LangGraph, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK, or the Claude Agent SDK.\nYou have delivered data to Snowflake or Databricks.\nYou have worked with web data, such as scraping, anti-bot systems, and structured extraction.\nYou use AI development tools effectively and take responsibility for reviewing, testing, and maintaining the code they produce\nAbout us\nNimble is the company leading the AI web search category. Our products are used by leading businesses in financial services, retail, market intelligence, and coding to build best-in-class AI agents with accurate, auditable programmatic access to the web.\nWe've raised over $70 million from Norwest, Databricks Ventures, Target Global, Square Peg, and others to build expert-level web search for AI. 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