Senior Forward Deployed Engineer @ Varick Agents

ABOUT VARICK

Varick builds AI agents that take over real operational workflows inside the world's largest enterprises. Our forward-deployed engineers and strategists embed with client teams to map how work gets done and build POCs, then our engineers bring those agents into production. We're venture-backed, revenue-generating from day one, and already in production inside several of these companies. You'll join an elite team from Meta, AWS Bedrock, Citadel Securities, McKinsey, BCG, Stanford, and more.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Forward Deployed Engineers are the client-facing builders at Varick. You embed with enterprise stakeholders ranging from C-suite to operators on the ground. You conduct interviews with process leads, deploy process mining agents across systems of record, and iterate on agent POCs together with the client.

This is a role for people who communicate clearly, think like operators, and build like engineers. You sit across the table from a controller and map how the process actually runs (not merely how the documentation says it does), then you turn that into specs, prototypes, evals, and working agents. You don't need to be a distributed-systems engineer. You need to know what to build, prove that it works, and land it with the client.

You also need to be the person to bring the stakeholders along. You will co-create KPIs with leadership, co-create UI surfaces with process owners, and plan and execute change management initiatives.

There is an enormous difference between building a demo and running agents inside a Fortune 500 team. This role lives in that difference.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Embed with client teams across departments (from finance, sales, and IT to marketing, HR, and operations) to map how work gets done, step by step and system by system. Go beyond the golden path. Find the exceptions, the workarounds, and the impact of handoffs across teams for exception-handling

Translate ambiguous business problems into well-framed agent workflows with clear success criteria, guardrails, and an evaluation plan, using the latest Varick toolkits and process re-engineering solutions

Co-create KPIs with clients, identify ways to baseline them, and propose solutions for ongoing monitoring of post-deployment uplift

Drive adoption: train the client's team, sit with the users, watch what they actually do, and continuously iterate on the agents

Present findings, prototypes, and results directly to C-suite stakeholders. Top tier communication is a requirement for this role; simply being technical is not enough. If you don't have what it takes to command a room of the world's largest executives, you are not a good fit for this role

Codify what works into Varick's playbooks, skill files, and broader toolkit. Share field signal with our platform team: where the agents succeed, where they fail, what the model can't do yet, and what to build next

Build and leverage relationships with existing Varick clients to help them identify their biggest opportunities for additional AI transformation, whether that's more agentic initiatives within the same department or an expansion to a new department within the same org

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

The role combines 3 skillsets that are rare to find in 1 individual, and you need to be one of the best across all three: 1) Communication, 2) Analysis, and 3) Engineering. The list below highlights tactical examples of how you can show your experience across these.

A track record of solving hard, ambiguous problems for senior stakeholders and shipping the result, whether you got there as a SWE, product manager, consultant, banker, private equity investor, forward deployed engineer, or sales engineer. We care more about what you've built and owned than where you trained

AI-native. You use tools like Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor every day; you've built with LLMs (prompt design, agents, evals), and you have a real point of view on what works and how to best use AI in your workflows. You can demonstrate this and argue well for your choices