Senior Forward Deployed Engineer AI Agent
Cresta is an enterprise customer-experience AI platform that unifies autonomous AI agents, real-time agent assistance, and conversation intelligence for contact centers.
Funding history
About Cresta
Cresta Intelligence, Inc. operates Cresta, a human-centric AI platform for enterprise contact centers. Its products automate selected customer conversations, assist human agents in real time, and analyze conversations to improve customer experience, revenue, and operating efficiency.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will develop, configure, deploy, and optimize AI agents. You will integrate agents with external systems, troubleshoot enterprise deployments, gather technical requirements, deliver demonstrations and proofs of concept, coordinate implementation projects, and advise customers on architecture, security, scalability, and AI-agent adoption.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 3+ years of full-time experience in software development, consulting, AI/ML engineering, or Forward Deployed Engineering
- Python
- Golang
- AI/ML concepts
- Large language models
- Prompt engineering
- AI agent frameworks
- Function calling
- Retrieval-augmented generation
- AWS, GCP, or Azure
- DevOps practices including CI/CD, containerization, and monitoring
- API, webhook, and data-pipeline integrations
- Communication skills
- Project management
- A/B testing
- Performance monitoring
Responsibilities
- Develop, configure, deploy, and optimize AI agents
- Build integrations with APIs, databases, CRMs, and external systems
- Optimize agent prompts and configurations and troubleshoot enterprise issues
- Gather technical requirements and translate business needs into AI-agent solutions
- Conduct demos, build proofs of concept, and refine solutions from feedback
- Define milestones and implementation plans and coordinate delivery
- Provide product and engineering feedback from deployments
- Advise customers on AI-agent architecture, security, scalability, and adoption
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision plans
- Paid parental leave
- Monthly health and wellness allowance
- Work-from-home office stipend
- Lunch reimbursement for in-office employees
- Three weeks of PTO in Canada
- Equity
Hiring Process
Initial resume review → self-paced CoderPad technical assessment → conversational interview rounds.
