Forward Deployed Research Engineer

Ovii's Interpretation of the Role

The Forward Deployed Research Engineer builds production‑grade integrations that let AI agents interact with enterprise tools. You will turn complex APIs into agent‑usable surfaces, create evaluation harnesses, and own end‑to‑end delivery for enterprise customers.

Role Snapshot

• Enterprise integration engineering
• AI‑native tool development
• End‑to‑end customer ownership
• Production code delivery
• Evaluation harness creation

Must-Have Requirements

• integration engineering
• enterprise API auth (OAuth 2.0, consent models, scope design, multi‑workspace tokens)
• production code delivery
• AI‑native tooling for language models
• customer technical ownership
• integration engineering for enterprise APIs
• AI‑native tool development

Nice-to-Have Signals

• Python in production
• TypeScript
• API platform / iPaaS background
• prior FDE or solutions‑architect experience
• frontier output such as MCP servers or tool‑use evals
• Python production experience
• TypeScript experience
• iPaaS or integration platform background

Work Setup

• Location: San Francisco, United States
• Work mode: ONSITE
• Employment type: Full-Time

Not Specified in JD

• Visa sponsorship
• Salary range
• Remote eligibility
• Education requirement
• Coding test

What You'll Likely Work On

• Convert large enterprise APIs into agent‑usable tool surfaces, defining granularity and scope
• Design and implement evaluation harnesses that verify correct tool selection by agents
• Own enterprise accounts from discovery through spec, implementation, QA, and release
• Ship production code in a monorepo and customer SDKs, including custom/composite tools and patches
• Create repeatable QA harnesses for toolkits
• Run weekly customer syncs to summarize status, ETAs, and escalations
• Operate self‑service per‑customer tool‑patching

Good Fit If You Have

• Comfort with ambiguous research problems and turning them into production solutions
• Strong sense of developer experience and ability to explain complex ideas quickly
• Track record of building trust with enterprise engineering stakeholders