Forward Deployed Engineer, Ecosystem - Tavily

Role description

Role Overview

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, Ecosystem, you'll work directly with Tavily's strategic partners to design, build, and launch solutions that make Tavily a core component of the modern agent stack. You'll partner with external engineering and product teams to create high-quality integrations, reference implementations, demos, technical content, and joint solutions that help developers and companies build better AI agents.

What You Will Do

Your responsibilities will include working directly with ecosystem partners, designing and building high-quality integrations, creating reference implementations, collaborating with partner engineering and product teams, supporting technical partner conversations, identifying opportunities for Tavily to become embedded in partner products, and translating ecosystem patterns and partner feedback into product and roadmap input.

Why It Might Be a Fit

We expect you to have strong hands-on engineering ability, especially with Python, APIs, SDKs, backend systems, and developer-facing integrations. You'll have high autonomy, strong ownership, and comfort operating in a fast-moving startup environment.

Requirements

• 3+ years of software engineering experience
• Strong hands-on engineering ability, especially with Python, APIs, SDKs, backend systems, and developer-facing integrations
• Deep interest in the AI ecosystem and strong familiarity with the modern agent stack
• Experience building with LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, agent architectures, context engineering, and AI application frameworks
• Experience with at least one major agent or LLM orchestration framework
• Strong product intuition and ability to design integrations that are technically sound, easy to use, and valuable for developers
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills across engineering, product, partner, and developer audiences
• Ability to create clear technical content, including documentation, tutorials, example apps, demos, and reference architectures

Benefits

• 100% company-paid medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and families
• 401(k) plan with up to 4% company match with immediate vesting
• 20 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, 12 weeks for secondary caregivers
• Up to $85/month remote work reimbursement for mobile and internet
• Company-paid short-term, long-term and life insurance coverage