{"id":3701390,"url":"https://alion.io/job/trase-forward-deployed-engineer","title":"Forward Deployed Engineer","company":{"id":16052,"name":"Trase","domain":"trase.ai","url":"https://alion.io/company/trase","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":null},"role":"Solutions","role_family":"Solutions","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Seattle, United States","McLean, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":{"min":150000,"max":240000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":240000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Java","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false},{"name":"Hugging Face","optional":true},{"name":"OpenAI","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-03T17:01:44Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-03","last_verified_at":"2026-11-04T06:09:44Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"About Us\nCo-founded in 2023 by Joe Laws and Grant Verstandig, Trase Systems is AI, Uncomplicated. Trase empowers enterprise leaders to harness the full potential of AI without the associated complexity and risks. We are an end-to-end solution for deploying, managing, and optimizing AI in the enterprise. Our platform specializes in bridging the “last mile” of AI adoption, unlocking AI's full potential while driving efficiency and significant cost savings.Trase is at the forefront of AI Agentinnovation, topping the Hugging Face GAIA Leaderboard for Generalized AI Assistants, ahead of industry giants such as Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI. We are leveraging our cutting-edge technologies to develop mission-critical agentic applications in complex industries such as Healthcare, Oil & Gas, and National Security. \nAbout the Role\nAs 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.\nThis 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.\nWe are hiring at Mid, Senior and Staff levels. Level will reflect your demonstrated engineering depth, independence, and scope of ownership.\nWhy This Role is Needed\nCustomer 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.\nThis role exists to:\nDeliver working solutions that improve customer workflows and produce measurable outcomes.\nBridge customer needs and platform engineering, identifying gaps early and shaping practical solutions.\nTurn successful deployments into reusable integrations and patterns that help future customers launch faster.\nWhat makes this role challenging\nCustomer environments vary in data quality, integration options, security requirements, and operational readiness.\nAI behavior must be evaluated against real workflows, including failure cases, escalation paths, and human review.\nYou must balance delivery speed with reliability and maintainability, while deciding what belongs in a customer solution versus the shared platform.\nResponsibilities\nWork directly with customers to map workflows, identify useful AI applications, and agree on scope, success measures, and acceptance criteria.\nBuild production-quality agents, applications, APIs, and integrations using Trase OS, including backend services and user interfaces as needed.\nIntegrate customer systems, data sources, and identity providers; work with infrastructure engineers to deploy in customer or Trase-managed environments.\nOwn delivery through testing, deployment, customer validation, and operational handoff. Surface dependencies, risks, and scope changes early.\nBuild evaluations, automated tests, observability, and human review or escalation into agent workflows; validate quality, latency, cost, and reliability.\nApply appropriate access controls, data-handling policies, and audit logging in partnership with Security and customer teams.\nDebug production issues across application, data, integration, and infrastructure layers; document solutions and create practical runbooks.\nContribute reusable components and product feedback to Origin and Arena; collaborate on platform improvements rather than maintaining unnecessary custom implementations.\nRequirements\nExperience building and shipping production software, with strong coding, testing, debugging, and API design fundamentals.\nProficiency in a modern language such as Python, Java or TypeScript, and experience with databases, backend services, and external integrations.\nWorking knowledge of cloud infrastructure, containers, CI/CD, and monitoring; ability to troubleshoot deployed applications.\nAbility to translate customer needs into implementable work and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nPractical understanding of LLM applications or AI agents, including their limitations, evaluation, and safe interaction with customer data and systems.\nOwnership of delivery and quality, curiosity about customer operations, and comfort working through incomplete requirements.\nNice to Have\nExperience as a forward deployed, product, full stack, or solutions engineer with substantial production coding responsibility.\nDomain experience in healthcare, SLED, financial services, or retail; familiarity with sensitive data and regulated customer environments.\nExperience with agent orchestration, retrieval, LLM evaluations, enterprise identity, or complex enterprise integrations.\nExpectations by level:\nEngineer II (L4): Deliver scoped features and integrations with guidance; contribute to customer discovery, testing, and production troubleshooting.\nSenior Engineer (L5): Independently lead a customer workstream from discovery to production, make design decisions, and mentor engineers.\nStaff Engineer (L6): Lead complex deployments and architecture across teams, resolve broader technical risks, and establish reusable patterns across Leagues.\nIf you want to be on the cutting edge of technology, building AI solutions for the future, and are up for a challenge, let’s talk!\nSalary Range: $150,000-240,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience, skills, and other factors.\nSome travel to customers may be required.\nOur Trase Benefits:\nFor full-time roles only \nCareer track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement with strong performance as the firm grows \n100% employer paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.\nPaid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay.\nUnlimited PTO, with management approval.\nOpportunities for professional development and continued learning.\nOptional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available.\nMental health benefits are available through Tara Mind. \nWe’re an Equal Opportunity Employer: You’ll receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.\nApplicant Data Disclosure \nBy submitting an application, you acknowledge that Red Cell Partners, LLC (\"Red Cell\") uses third-party service providers to facilitate its recruitment and hiring processes. 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