Associate Forward Deployed Engineer

Tenexlabs Inc.

Job Overview

Location

New York City

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Our mission is to turn frontier intelligence into real results for every business. We charge for results, not access.
• Tenex was founded in New York City in 2025. We are roughly 50 people today and our end-of-year target is 150. We ship production AI for Fortune 500 clients, and one in three of our engineers has founded a company.
• The Associate Forward Deployed Engineer is how that happens. It is not a support role and not a services role. It is the role.
• You own the outcome. You work with the customer, frame the problem, choose the architecture, build the system, ship it, and stay accountable for what happens in production:
• Discover. You embed inside a real business, learn how it makes money, and find where AI would create real value rather than a demo.
• Decide. You turn ambiguity into a product direction and a technical plan, and you defend both when someone senior disagrees.
• Build. You ship the system, not a disconnected piece of it, and you make the build-versus-buy and architecture calls yourself.
• Own. You measure what happens in production and keep improving it after the merge.
• At this level you own a workstream outright. You decide what gets built and in what order, you are the technical voice the client hears on that work, and when the scope turns out to be wrong you are the one who says so and re-cuts it.
• Tenex is rebuilding the software development lifecycle around coding agents. The goal is a software factory that carries work from a business problem to a production system with increasing agent autonomy, where planning, architecture, implementation, testing, review, and delivery become one connected system rather than a series of handoffs.
• Every engagement changes the problem. Each one brings a different industry, architecture, and set of technical constraints, across finance, software companies, media, industrials, energy, logistics, professional sports teams, healthcare, consumer packaged goods, real estate, and market research.
• Recent work includes the operating system a private equity firm with $115 billion under management runs on, AI verification of every in-store sampling station for a national retailer with 70,000 field staff, and camera systems across thousands of retail stores that catch theft, manage queues, and track inventory on the floor.
• Some of what we hit has no established solution yet, including agent orchestration, evaluation, memory, and long-running execution.
• Tenex has more demand than capacity. New engagements, products, and teams create a constant need for people who can own larger problems, so nobody here waits for a seat above them to open.
• One year here is worth several years elsewhere in engineering, product, customer, and leadership growth, because the mechanism is the work itself rather than a development program.
• We are a people business. The engineers we put in front of clients are the product, so hiring is the highest-stakes decision we make each week.
• We look for a few specific things:
• You have shipped production software that real people depended on, whether at a job, at your own company, or on something you built alone.
• You have built something real with LLMs and can explain honestly where it worked and where it did not.
• You get productive in an unfamiliar domain within days, because every engagement asks you to.
• You can explain a technical decision to a CEO as clearly as you can to another engineer.
• You use AI in your own work every day and have opinions about how to do it well.
• Tenex is intense by design. We work together in Manhattan five days a week, the pace is fast, and the standards are high.
• Compensation has three parts. Base salary is a strong guaranteed foundation, and it is deliberately the floor rather than the headline. The quarterly bonus rewards meaningful delivery, quality and outcomes, and leadership, and it is not capped at target, so high performers earn well above their base.
• Equity makes you an owner in the value you help create, and everyone at Tenex owns a stake in every bet we make, including the products and joint ventures that come out of client work.
• We share the full mechanics, and your specific numbers, with your offer.

🎯 Requirements

• You have shipped production software that real people depended on, whether at a job, at your own company, or on something you built alone.
• You have built something real with LLMs and can explain honestly where it worked and where it did not.
• You get productive in an unfamiliar domain within days, because every engagement asks you to.
• You can explain a technical decision to a CEO as clearly as you can to another engineer.
• You use AI in your own work every day and have opinions about how to do it well.

🏖️ Benefits

• Base salary is a strong guaranteed foundation.
• The quarterly bonus rewards meaningful delivery, quality and outcomes, and leadership, and it is not capped at target, so high performers earn well above their base.
• Equity makes you an owner in the value you help create, and everyone at Tenex owns a stake in every bet we make, including the products and joint ventures that come out of client work.

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About Tenexlabs Inc.

Tenexlabs Inc. is a technology company specializing in advanced solutions for various industries. They focus on developing innovative software and hardware to address complex challenges in areas such as artificial intelligence, data analytics, and cybersecurity. Their expertise lies in creating custom-tailored products and services designed to enhance operational efficiency, improve decision-making, and bolster security for their clients. Tenexlabs is committed to pushing the boundaries of technological advancement, offering cutting-edge solutions that provide a competitive edge. They work closely with businesses to understand their unique needs and deliver impactful, scalable, and reliable technological outcomes.

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