Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Forward Deployed AI Engineer
Location: Remote / Hybrid (Preferred: Bengaluru, India)
Team: Customer Engineering
Company: Emergent – The world’s first agentic vibe-coding platform

About Emergent
Emergent is reimagining how software is built. We’re the world’s first agentic vibe-coding platform — built on top of Claude — that turns natural language into fully functional apps. Users describe what they want, and Emergent’s AI agents code, deploy, and evolve those applications in real time. We’re building the future where everyone can program simply by expressing intent.

The Role
We’re looking for a Forward Deployed AI Engineer — a rare blend of product thinker, builder, and customer partner. You’ll work directly with our business users to translate messy, high-context problems into working apps and automations using Emergent’s platform.
You’ll deploy fast, prototype relentlessly, and ensure customers succeed — whether that means building a custom AI workflow, debugging a misbehaving agent, or designing better prompts. This role sits at the intersection of AI engineering, customer success, and product development.

What You’ll Do
● Partner with clients to deeply understand their business goals, workflows, and constraints.
● Use Emergent’s vibe-coding environment to design, prompt, and deploy complete applications tailored to each client’s needs.
● Translate non-technical requirements into structured AI instructions, integrations, and behaviors.
● Prototype, test, and iterate quickly — owning delivery from ideation to deployment.
● Work with the Emergent product and research teams to push platform boundaries — identifying gaps, hallucination issues, or new agentic behaviors worth building.
● Train and support customer teams, helping them become self-sufficient vibe coders.
● Act as the voice of the customer, surfacing insights and patterns that influence Emergent’s roadmap.

Who You Are
● A builder at heart — you love getting your hands dirty and delivering working systems.
● Previous experience of 2-5 years building full-stack applications
● Strong grounding in LLMs, prompt engineering, and API integration.
● Comfort with Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript — not to write entire systems, but to debug, extend, and integrate when needed.
● Experience with tools like Claude Code, OpenAI Codex is a plus.
● You can think in systems: data flows, edge cases, and user outcomes matter to you.
● You enjoy direct customer collaboration and can translate ambiguity into clarity and output.

Why Emergent
● Work at the frontier of agentic AI, helping real users experience the next generation of computing.
● Collaborate with a small, fast, and deeply technical team obsessed with product and design.
● Shape a new paradigm — where software builds itself from human intent.
● Competitive compensation + early-stage equity + real product ownership.