Forward Deployed Agentic Engineer
Role Overview
Join as one of Gumloop’s first Forward Deployed Engineers, embedded with enterprise customers to understand their business, identify AI opportunities, and build agents.
Own technical delivery from discovery to deployment after a contract is signed, combining hands-on building with practical AI strategy.
Scope valuable opportunities, connect required systems, and measure success through adoption and business impact.
Help define how Gumloop partners with enterprise customers.
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About Gumloop
Gumloop builds a multiplayer AI agent platform that lets teams build, share, and optimize agents using AI models and integrations.
Teams can orchestrate agents across their business while IT controls data, access, and spend.
The company describes itself as a small, fast-moving team; its agents are used by companies including Gusto, Ramp, Shopify, Samsara, Instacart, and Opendoor.
Gumloop has raised over CAD 70M to scale its business.
Role Overview
Join as one of Gumloop’s first Forward Deployed Engineers, embedded with enterprise customers to understand their business, identify AI opportunities, and build agents.
Own technical delivery from discovery to deployment after a contract is signed, combining hands-on building with practical AI strategy.
Scope valuable opportunities, connect required systems, and measure success through adoption and business impact.
Help define how Gumloop partners with enterprise customers.
What You’ll Do
- Work directly with customer teams and executives to identify and scope high-value AI opportunities.
- Map processes, connect systems, and structure data so agents run reliably in customer environments.
- Build, test, deploy, and iterate on Gumloop agents; measure adoption and business impact.
- Partner with Customer Success and Education to enable customer ownership and broad usage.
- Turn deployment learnings into reusable patterns and concrete feedback for Product and Engineering.
- Travel to customer sites as needed, up to about 30%, and operate through ambiguity.
What You Bring
- Approximately 4+ years of technical experience and a record of shipping useful agents or connected systems beyond prototype stage.
- Technical foundation in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Data Science, or equivalent hands-on experience.
- Experience deploying or implementing software in enterprise environments, including process mapping and work with customer data.
- Comfort with JSON, JavaScript, Git, MCPs, and data-structure discussions, with ability to build and debug in the field.
- Clear communication with technical and non-technical audiences, from frontline users to executives.
- Good judgment under ambiguity and a hands-on approach to solving important problems.
- Willingness to travel up to 30% and work onsite with customers.
Bonus Qualifications
- Experience in consulting, professional services, or implementation at a high-growth company.
- Prior forward-deployed engineering, solutions engineering, or deployment engineering work.
- Familiarity with agent tooling, MCP servers, and production LLM workflows.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity.
- Paid time off: 24 days for San Francisco employees and 20 days globally.
- CAD 350 per month wellness benefit.
- 15 days of temporary remote-work flexibility per year.
- 401(k) match up to 6%.
Compensation
- Compensation range: CAD 175,000–CAD 265,000.
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