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title: 'Forward-Deployed Engineer at Tessera Labs'
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# Forward-Deployed Engineer at Tessera Labs

- **Company:** Tessera Labs
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tessera-labs/5fd4b128-180a-4ef0-988e-90139766323e/application

**Skills:** Python, Pandas, NumPy, AI-assisted coding tools, Data Migration, API Integration, Microsoft D365 CRM, SAP S/4 HANA, Large Language Models (LLMs), Statistical Analysis, Business Analytics, Salesforce, Snowflake, Profisee, SAP Modules

> The Forward-Deployed Engineer leads end-to-end technical delivery and customer success for enterprise AI adoption projects. This hybrid role involves building production-grade multi-agent AI solutions using Python, analyzing customer workflows, and ensuring sustained business value through deep technical engagement...

## Job description

Office Locations: East Coast; San Francisco (Hybrid); San José HQ (Hybrid) SoCal, West Coast, Texas, Arizona

Remote work: Tessera is a remote company.

Travel: Required for customer engagements, with a wide variance per customer, of up to 50%

Deployment at Customer Site: Up to 2-3 days a week at customer site depending on customer and phase of engagement

Relocation stipend: Provided

## ABOUT TESSERA LABS

As a Forward-Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Tessera, you will drive how global enterprises deploy AI at scale. You will own our most strategic customers and deployments, building and operationalizing AI automation in a category with no established playbook — a role where outcomes are asymmetric and a single person can be decisive. You are the technical arm of our pre-sales and post-sales motions, embedding in Fortune 500 customers whose expectations were set by a world before AI. The solutions you build and ship will replace and augment mission-critical workflows in production that previously consumed thousands of human hours and added months or years to billion-dollar project timelines.

Tessera Forward-Deployed Engineers are technical AI engineers with strong product intuition. You will develop relationships with top decision-makers at the world's most influential companies, and you'll rapidly learn the architectural intricacies sustaining global corporations. You'll own building new systems at the frontier of our platform, and you'll operate with exceptional autonomy and represent Tessera at the highest level. The most important question you'll ask is not how to deploy, but what to build and deploy: as a frontline engineer, you carry the highest signal of how the product is moving and where it ought to go, so you will be expected to drive and shape our product strategy.

What makes this not a consulting role: we are a product company. Our business model drives outcomes through a platform, not people. Your ownership will span customer outcomes and product strategy across both short- and long-term horizons: ship the customer outcome in front of you now, and shape the product's capabilities for the long term.

As a Forward-Deployed Engineer, you'll constantly balance business tradeoffs: win enterprise revenue but protect the core roadmap; drive short-term success while preserving long-term leverage; go deep into customer workflows but don't become a consultant. Ultimately, your responsibility is to drive revenue, holding both horizons in mind at once.

You will sit at the intersection of GTM, Product, Engineering, and Center of Excellence, owning engagements from pre-deployment through maturity and beyond, and partnering closely with Deployed Strategists in customer deployments.

This role is ideal for engineers and ex-founders who thrive under ambiguity and pair strong technical chops with intuitive people skills. Deployed Engineers are proactive problem-solvers with a keen ability to see around corners.

## Responsibilities

- Write code and build production software on top of the Tessera platform
- Run deep process discovery with customers — break down complex, ambiguous, cross-system problems into well-defined solutions
- Build lightweight prototypes and applications that showcase Tessera's AI agents in real enterprise scenarios
- Partner with GTM to frame technical boundaries in sales engagements and produce technical collateral, including Statements of Work
- Collaborate with Infra and Engineering to architect implementations that scale across high-volume, business-critical processes
- Iterate with customers and cross-functional partners to drive adoption from pilot to full production
- Carry field signal back to Product and Engineering, helping shape what we build
- Build durable customer relationships and proactively surface new automation opportunities throughout each engagement
- Lead training and workshop sessions on-site to upskill customers on the platform

YOU MAY BE A GOOD FIT IF YOU HAVE

- 2+ years building software in a high-ownership, customer-facing capacity — as a Forward-Deployed Engineer, Solutions Engineer, founding/early engineer at a high-growth startup, or technical founder
- Strong hands-on experience with Python and JavaScript/TypeScript
- Experience building production-grade AI systems (experience at a frontier AI lab or top AI application company is a strong signal)
- A track record of taking ambiguous, high-stakes problems from zero to shipped
- Strong communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- The ability to operate effectively under ambiguity and fast-moving deployments
- An ownership mentality and the willingness to do whatever it takes to get a deployment over the line
- A history of learning hard things fast and operating far outside your original lane
- Founder experience (a plus)

No third party may recruit, solicit candidates, publish job opportunities, use Tessera Labs’ name or branding, or represent that they are acting on behalf of Tessera Labs without prior written authorization. Any such activity conducted without explicit written consent is strictly prohibited.

## About Tessera Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Tessera Labs provides a multi-agent AI platform that accelerates and de-risks enterprise ERP and critical systems modernization.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A; $60M raised)
- **Headquarters**: San Jose, California, United States (also listed as Palo Alto, CA)
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Kabir Nagrecha, Ph.D. (CEO) and Anirudh Sriram (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise Software & AI – focused on ERP transformation and system integration.
- **Target customers**: Large enterprises running SAP, Salesforce, Workday, Oracle, and other systems of record (B2B, Enterprise).
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Unifying the disparate pieces of the enterprise into a coherent whole” – making complex transformations faster, safer, and more cost-effective.

## Products & Services
- **Tessera Platform (Multi-Agent AI)**: An AI-native, vendor-agnostic platform that automates data harmonization, code remediation, cross-system orchestration, and governance for ERP and connected systems. It compresses modernization timelines from years to weeks and reduces costs by more than half. [tesseralabs.ai](https://www.tesseralabs.ai/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised: $60M in Series A (May 2026). [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/tessera-labs)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led the Series A, with participation from Foundation Capital, Osage University Partners, Myriad Venture Partners, and A16Z GAMES. Key strategic advisors include Abdul Razack (EVP at Aon, ex-Google Cloud) and Prakash Gupta (founding CRO of Turing). [tesseralabs.ai/about](https://www.tesseralabs.ai/about)
- **Growth Signals**: 35 employees with 4% monthly headcount growth; 38 active job postings (up 46.2% MoM); proven in $250M+ programs and regulated industries; Series A raised just one month ago (May 2026). [linkedin.com/company/tesseralabsai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tesseralabsai)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vendor-agnostic platform** that works across SAP, Salesforce, Workday, and Oracle – avoiding lock-in unlike ERP vendor tools or point solutions.
- **Pre-trained on thousands of enterprise landscapes** and backed by deep expertise (founders and leadership have backgrounds at SAP, Oracle, Google, Stanford AI Lab).
- **Governance-first design**: every action is logged and traceable, built for regulated industries and audit compliance.
- **Speed vs. incumbents**: compresses timelines by ~90% compared to traditional system integrators, and costs by more than half.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scaling the enterprise customer base, deepening multi-agent AI capabilities, and expanding the partner ecosystem. Hiring heavily across engineering, product, and consulting to support rapid go-to-market.
- **Direction for growth**: Continue to displace legacy system integrators and internal IT teams with an AI-first, governed approach to ERP modernization. Target large-scale SAP S/4HANA migrations, CRM/HCM harmonizations, and connected-system orchestration.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Described as “enterprise serious, AI forward” – a blend of deep enterprise gravity and cutting-edge AI research. Team includes PhDs, ex-Google/Microsoft/Netflix engineers, and former SAP directors.
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Not explicitly stated, but headquarters in San Jose (CA) and Palo Alto, and job postings suggest a mix of on-site and remote flexibility (e.g., multiple backend engineer roles, a Technical Program Manager). Expect hybrid with a strong in-office core.
- **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Working on the frontier of enterprise AI with real-world impact on massive transformation projects. Opportunity to shape a new category of software. Leadership includes one of UC San Diego’s youngest PhDs and a YC alumnus.
- **Open technical roles**: Backend engineers, data engineers (ERP data harmonization), DevOps, product design, SAP consultants – 38 open positions as of mid-2026. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/tessera-labs](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tessera-labs)

## Sources
1. [tesseralabs.ai](https://www.tesseralabs.ai/)
2. [tesseralabs.ai/about](https://www.tesseralabs.ai/about)
3. [linkedin.com/company/tesseralabsai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tesseralabsai)
4. [cbinsights.com/company/tessera-labs](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/tessera-labs)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/tessera-labs](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tessera-labs)

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