Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed Engineer
Venture studio that launches, operates, and scales technology companies across healthcare, cyber, and national security.
About Red Cell Partners
Red Cell Partners is an active McLean, Virginia-based venture studio founded in 2020. It creates, incubates, operates, and scales mission-critical technology companies across healthcare, cyber, and national security, with both incubation and investment activities.
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About the Role
You will work directly with enterprise customers to understand their workflows and turn operational needs into production-grade AI solutions. You will own the full technical lifecycle, from defining the problem and building data pipelines to designing evaluations, deploying AI agents and iterating against measurable goals. Travel to customer sites is required as needed.
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, including full-stack with strong backend
- Experience building and shipping AI applications in production
- Understanding of AI agent architectures and evaluation methodologies
- Experience with scalable backend services, APIs, data pipelines and integrations
- Experience working with enterprise customers
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Willingness to travel to customer locations
- U.S. citizenship required
Responsibilities
- Work directly with enterprise customer teams to understand their businesses and workflows
- Translate operational needs into AI-driven solutions
- Own design, development, deployment and improvement of production-grade AI agents
- Build data pipelines, integrations and supporting systems
- Develop evaluation systems to measure agent performance
- Translate business requirements into technical architectures and implementation plans
- Partner with Product, Platform, Research and Engineering teams
- Codify reusable engineering practices and agent patterns
- Feed lessons from deployments back to platform and product teams
- Diagnose technical and operational challenges in customer environments
- Communicate decisions, progress and risks to stakeholders
Benefits
- 100% employer paid health care including medical, dental and vision for you and your family
- Paid maternity and paternity leave for 14 weeks
- Unlimited PTO with management approval
- Optional 401K and FSA
- Equity incentives
- Mental health benefits through Tara Mind
- GLP-1 solutions through Crux