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Take2’s agent network automates the end-to-end recruiting process, from sourcing and screening to credential verification, scheduling, and onboarding.\nWe work with enterprise healthcare customers, including several of the largest health systems in the USA. It's an exciting time to join - we're growing incredibly fast, with much of that growth coming from customers seeing the value of our product and expanding usage. Come build with us!\nAbout the Role\nTake2 AI is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to design, launch, and continuously improve our AI Interviewers for customers. Our AI agents already conduct tens of thousands of structured candidate interviews each month.\nThis role sits at the intersection of voice/conversational agents, prompt + flow design, evaluation/scoring rubrics, and production iteration. 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You'll also be at the heart of our product motion - we build our roadmap based on our customers and our FDEs sit squarely at the center of that loop.\nThis is a hands-on, highly analytical role for someone who enjoys turning ambiguous requirements into precise agent behavior, building rigorous evaluation approaches, and shipping improvements quickly in a startup environment.\nWhat You’ll Do\nCustomer Onboarding & Requirements (Customer-Facing)\nLead technical onboarding with customers to understand roles, hiring goals, must-have signals, and constraints.\n\nTranslate customer needs into structured interview flows, role-specific question banks, and scoring rubrics.\n\nSet clear expectations on what “good” looks like (pass/fail thresholds, evaluation rationale, interviewer tone and style).\n\nVoice Agent Conversation Design (Prompts + Flows)\nDesign, build, and refine prompts and agent logic that drive interviewer behavior, question sequencing, probing, and candidate experience.\n\nEnsure interviewer conversations are consistent, role-relevant, and robust to edge cases (evasive candidates, unclear answers, noisy audio, interruptions).\n\nImplement multi-step structured interview flows with state management and guardrails.\n\nEvaluation & Scoring Systems\nDesign and maintain AI-based evaluation and scoring aligned to customer rubrics and hiring criteria.\n\nImprove accuracy, consistency, and explainability of scoring at scale (including calibration across roles/customers).\n\nIdentify bias/fairness risks and contribute to mitigation strategies and compliant evaluation practices.\n\nDeployment, Iteration, and Customer Feedback Loops\nLaunch new customer interviewers into production and own iteration cycles from early rollout through steady-state performance.\n\nUse customer feedback + production metrics to prioritize improvements and deliver measurable outcomes.\n\nCommunicate changes clearly to customers and internal stakeholders.\n\nQuality, Reliability, and Scale\nBuild and own lightweight QA/evaluation pipelines to measure conversation quality, scoring accuracy, and reliability before/after changes.\n\nMonitor production performance and partner with engineering to balance quality, latency, and cost tradeoffs.\n\nContribute to standards and best practices for prompt quality, eval quality, and voice-agent reliability.\n\nIn Terms of Experience\nRequired:\nMinimum 2 (preferred 4-6) years of experience working in an engineering role\n\n1+ (preferred 2+) years working with LLMs, NLP systems, or AI agents in production.\n\nStrong full-stack software engineering experience\n\nDemonstrated experience designing and deploying agent workflows (prompts + structured flows) that operate at scale.\n\nStrong understanding of prompt engineering, agent control, failure modes, and conversational edge cases.\n\nExperience building or contributing to evaluation/testing/QA frameworks for AI systems.\n\nComfort being customer-facing: running technical discovery, translating requirements, and driving onboarding to production.\n\nStrong analytical mindset (accuracy, consistency, bias, calibration, and edge cases).\n\nPreferred:\n2+ years working as a Forward Deployed Engineer at a B2B AI tech company.\n\nFamiliarity with voice/conversational AI systems, especially real-time or high-volume environments.\n\nStrong Python skills (APIs, data pipelines, eval harnesses, testing frameworks).\n\nHands-on experience with multiple LLMs (GPT, Claude, Gemini, LLaMA/Mistral, fine-tuned models).\n\nExperience designing multi-step agents with state management and structured outputs.\n\nExperience operating AI systems in production and iterating based on real-world performance metrics.\n\nPrior startup experience (high ownership, fast iteration, ambiguity).\n\nBachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/Math or related technical field - or equivalent practical experience.\n\nLocation & Flexibility\nWe’re NYC-based and work hybrid (in-office Mon-Thu). We value in-person collaboration but also trust people to manage their time responsibly.\nCompensation & Growth\nCompetitive salary + meaningful equity. 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