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title: 'Forward Deployed Engineer - AI Agent Engineer at Sema4.ai'
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# Forward Deployed Engineer - AI Agent Engineer at Sema4.ai

- **Company:** Sema4.ai
- **Location:** Atlanta, GA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-01-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sema4.ai/c39f4f0d-0d83-4663-84be-710f9727fe2f

## Job description

This is a moment of change — and tremendous potential. Do you want to be part of shaping what’s next in human-AI collaboration?

Sema4.ai enables the enterprise to build, run, and manage intelligent AI agents that transform how people work. As Generative AI shakes up every industry, enterprises are looking for ways to unleash stunning productivity gains; deliver efficiencies with profound effects on the bottom line; accelerate innovation pipelines; and disrupt new markets.

What you can expect from us:

- Unleash stunning productivity gains
- Deliver efficiencies with profound effects on the bottom line
- Accelerate your career growth by working with leading-edge technology, pioneering customers, and world-class colleagues

Recently named to Business Insider’s list of the most promising startups of 2024, Sema4.ai is funded by tier 1 venture capital firms–the ones who backed household names like Uber, Snapchat, Instagram, and Zendesk. Our founders are innovators in open source, big data, and automation-as-code. As previous leaders of the Enterprise Hadoop offering at Hortonworks and Cloudera, the Sema4.ai team has already managed a quarter of the world’s data with deployments in 90+ countries.

## THE OPPORTUNITY

At Sema4.ai, we're building an Enterprise AI Agent platform that reinvents how knowledge work happens—how people and AI agents collaborate to get work done better and faster. You'll be the hands-on leader responsible for building the core of our product: the Agent.

We're hiring a Technical Lead who is deeply technical and can architect cutting-edge AI systems while remaining hands-on with implementation. You'll guide the technical direction of our platform while mentoring senior engineers and driving engineering excellence across the team.

## WHO YOU ARE

We're seeking a dynamic Forward Deployed Engineer who thrives in fast-paced customer environments and brings deep technical expertise in AI agents. You'll work directly with enterprise clients to design, build, and deploy custom AI agent solutions while serving as the technical bridge between customers and our engineering team. You bring a "big motor"—the drive and energy to be first in the office, last to leave, and passionate about making customers successful.

## WHAT YOU’LL DO

Primary Focus: Deploy Production Agents

- Understanding the Customer Requirements and ideal target pieces for an Agent
- Define the success criteria for the AI agent
- Build and deploy production-ready AI agents that solve real business problems for enterprise customers
- Lead proof of concept (POC) development and transition agents from pilot to production
- Architect and implement custom AI agent solutions tailored to specific customer workflows and requirements

Technical Implementation & Support

- Provide hands-on technical implementation support, including Python development, SQL database work, and AWS infrastructure
- Develop example agents that demonstrate platform capabilities and best practices
- Troubleshoot complex technical issues across the AI agent stack, from integration challenges to performance optimization
- Create and maintain technical documentation, including solution designs, integration guides, and deployment runbooks

Customer Success & Account Management

- Act as the Technical Account Manager (TAM) for assigned customers, ensuring ongoing success and value realization
- Build deep relationships with customer technical teams and key stakeholders
- Collaborate closely with Sema4.ai's engineering team to provide customer feedback and drive product improvements
- Conduct technical workshops and training sessions to enable customer teams

Technical Consultation & Solution Design

- Serve as a subject matter expert on Sema4.ai's AI agent platform and emerging AI technologies
- Understand customer business challenges and translate them into technical agent solutions
- Deliver compelling technical demonstrations showcasing the platform's capabilities
- Provide technical guidance on integration with existing enterprise systems

## WHAT YOU BRING

Required Experience

- 3-4+ years of experience ideally in a consulting firm, systems integration role, or similar customer-facing technical position
- Proven track record of working with multiple enterprise customers and delivering successful technical implementations
- Experience deploying production software solutions in enterprise environments

Technical Skills

- AI & Agent Expertise: Strong understanding of AI agents, LLMs, LangChain, CrewAI, n8n, RAG architectures, and agentic application patterns
- Python Proficiency: Ability to build and deploy Python applications quickly (sub-15 minutes for simple apps)
- Development Tools: Excellent working knowledge of VSCode and/or Cursor
- Cloud Infrastructure: Strong working knowledge of AWS services and deployment
- Database Skills: SQL expertise and experience with database integration and troubleshooting
- API Integration: Experience with API integrations and software development principles
- AI Fundamentals: Understanding of natural language processing (NLP), machine learning (ML), and automation concepts

## Preferred Experience

- Experience with conversational AI platforms and business workflow automation
- Background in Technical Account Management or Forward Deployed Engineering roles
- Familiarity with the broader AI ecosystem and latest developments in agentic AI

## WHAT SETS YOU APART

- Big Motor & Work Ethic: You're energized by customer challenges, maintain high urgency, and bring exceptional drive to everything you do
- Customer-First Mentality: You're passionate about customer success and delivering measurable business value
- Technical Problem Solver: You excel at identifying root causes and resolving complex technical challenges under pressure
- Collaborative Team Player: You work seamlessly across sales, engineering, product, and customer success teams
- Consultative Approach: You understand business needs and translate them into technical solutions that drive outcomes
- Self-Motivated & Adaptable: You thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced startup environments and drive results independently
- Exceptional Communicator: You communicate clearly and effectively with both technical teams and C-level executives
- Detail-Oriented: You manage complex, multi-threaded projects while maintaining quality and attention to detail

## HOW WE WORK

- We move fast and value autonomy.
- We write to think and communicate clearly.
- We build together, not in silos.
- We value execution over plans, and customer impact over internal consensus.
- We work remotely across time zones, with flexible schedules and clear communication expectations.

## WHY SEMA4.AI

- We’re early—but shipping fast and solving real problems.
- You’ll have direct influence on product, culture, and strategy.
- You’ll join a driven, humble team of builders focused on impact.
- Founding team that has already “done it” before, with world-class investors.

## About Sema4.ai

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sema4.ai provides an enterprise AI agent platform that enables organizations to build, run, and manage AI agents to automate complex back-office workflows.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Rob Bearden (CEO), Ram Venkatesh (CTO), Paul Codding (SVP of Product and Customer Experience)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Enterprise AI Agent Platform, Back-Office Automation, Software Development
- **Target customers**: Large enterprises with complex, document- and data-heavy back-office operations (Finance, Accounting, Operations)
- **Mission or purpose**: To empower enterprises to automate their most complex challenges with cutting-edge agentic AI, transforming business operations through autonomous, intelligent agents.

## Products & Services
- **Sema4.ai Enterprise AI Agent Platform**: A comprehensive platform (SaaS/Cloud) for building, running, and managing AI agents. It includes three layers:
    - **Agent Layer**: Automates key back-office workflows like quote-to-cash and procure-to-pay, integrating with enterprise systems.
    - **Context Layer**: Provides shared business understanding by creating a consistent view of data across sources, enabling natural language interaction.
    - **Admin Layer**: A single, focused experience for business users to find, use, and work with agents.
- **Document Intelligence**: Agents with "X-ray vision" to see and understand any kind of document.
- **Runbooks**: Enables non-technical users to create and manage AI agents using natural language.
- **AI Actions**: Pre-built integrations to connect agents with applications and data sources in minutes.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$55.5M** (Series A)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: 6 investors (names not publicly listed on LinkedIn); partners include major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake) and LLM providers (OpenAI, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Bedrock, Snowflake Cortex).
- **Growth Signals**: Acquired Robocorp in January 2024; raised a $30.5M Series A in January 2024 and a subsequent $25M Series A in July 2025; LinkedIn followers grew 39.4% year-over-year; serves leading enterprises.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open-Source Foundation**: Built on an open-source framework that empowers developers and engineers, fostering community innovation and transparency.
- **Enterprise-Grade Security & Control**: Agents run in the customer's own cloud environment (AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake) with their own LLMs, providing complete control over security, compliance, and data.
- **Natural Language Runbooks**: Enables non-technical business users to create and manage AI agents without coding, lowering the barrier to automation.
- **Deterministic & Auditable Outcomes**: Designed for back-office processes requiring auditable, deterministic results, unlike many "black box" AI solutions.
- **Proven Leadership Team**: Founded by industry veterans from Cloudera, Docker, Hortonworks, SpringSource, and JBoss, with deep expertise in data management, distributed systems, and open source.

## Strategic Focus
- **Enterprise Adoption**: Scaling the platform to serve large enterprises, with a focus on finance and accounting automation (invoice reconciliation, AP help desk, receivables matching).
- **Open-Source Community**: Building an open-source framework to drive innovation and developer adoption.
- **Platform Expansion**: Continuously adding new agent capabilities, integrations, and use cases to expand the platform's reach.
- **Global Growth**: Operating in 8 countries (including Finland, Latvia, India, Poland, and Monaco) with a remote-first culture.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-First Culture**: The company has been remote-first since day one, offering flexible working hours and the ability to work from anywhere. Some roles may be hybrid or require specific locations.
- **Ownership & Equity**: All employees receive equity, reflecting a belief that hard work should be rewarded.
- **Health & Wellness**: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage; annual wellbeing benefits reimbursement; work-from-home equipment allowance.
- **Retirement**: 401(k) pension plan with matching contributions.
- **Time Off**: Flexible time-off policy, encouraging employees to plan based on personal needs and workload.
- **Culture**: Values include "Start with the customer," "Action over deliberation," and "Be kind to one another." The company emphasizes a fast-paced, results-oriented environment with a bias for action.
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: A modern, flexible, and caring workplace where diversity and inclusion are fundamental.
- **Fun & Connection**: Annual hackathons with fantastic prizes, company-wide off-sites, and meetups to connect with colleagues worldwide.
- **Interview Process**: Typically 3-4 rounds, with some roles requiring a take-home challenge (presentation or coding challenge). Most interviews are virtual.
- **Early Career Programs**: Offers internships and early career roles (e.g., Forward Deployed Engineer, Product Manager – Agents, AI/ML Researcher).

## Sources
1. [sema4.ai](https://sema4.ai/)
2. [sema4.ai/about-us](https://sema4.ai/about-us/)
3. [sema4.ai/careers](https://sema4.ai/careers/)
4. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sema4-ai)
5. [Built In](https://builtin.com/company/sema4-ai)

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