Manager – Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic AI

Manager – Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic AI Full-time Company Description Blend is a premier AI services provider, committed to co-creating meaningful impact for its clients through the power of data science, AI, technology, and people. Blend works with enterprises to turn AI ambition into measurable business outcomes, with a strong focus on moving solutions from experimentation into production. Blend's Forward Deployed AI Engineering model places senior, hands-on engineers directly within client environments and alongside client teams, creating accountability from solution design through production deployment. Blend is also investing heavily in agentic AI, including reusable orchestration, evaluation, observability, MCP, and production-ready AI foundations The company is dedicated to unlocking value and fostering innovation for its clients by harnessing world-class people and data-driven strategy. We believe that the power of people and AI can have a meaningful impact on your world, creating more fulfilling work and projects for our people and clients. For more information, visit www.blend360.com . Job Description We are looking for a Forward Deployment Engineer – Agentic AI to design, build, deploy, and continuously improve production-grade AI agents within enterprise client environments. This role combines AI Engineering, software engineering, context engineering, agent evaluation, and client-facing solution delivery. You will work directly with client teams to understand business problems, design agentic solutions, integrate agents with enterprise systems and tools, and ensure that agents are reliable, measurable, secure, and production-ready. The ideal candidate is someone who can move beyond building AI prototypes and can take an agentic solution from business problem → architecture → development → deployment → evaluation → continuous improvement. Key Responsibilities: Agentic AI Engineering Design and develop LLM-powered agents using Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, or similar AI coding agents that are capable of reasoning, planning, using tools, and executing complex multi-step workflows. Build autonomous and semi-autonomous agents using frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, Google ADK, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, or equivalent technologies. Implement agent planning, task decomposition, tool selection, execution, observation, retry, and validation workflows. Build multi-agent systems where specialized agents collaborate to complete complex business processes. Integrate agents with enterprise applications, APIs, databases, SaaS platforms, and business workflows. Context Engineering Design and implement context engineering strategies that provide agents with the right information, instructions, business rules, application state, and tool context at the right time. Build and integrate Context APIs, RAG, memory/state management, structured context, and dynamic context retrieval where appropriate. Optimize context to improve agent accuracy, reliability, latency, and cost. Design mechanisms to prevent irrelevant or excessive context from degrading agent performance. Apply context engineering principles across real-world enterprise workflows and client environments. Agent Harness Engineering Design and implement agent harnesses that control state, tool access, permissions, guardrails, retries, recovery, validation, and execution. Build human-in-the-loop workflows for actions requiring approval or oversight. Implement secure tool execution and appropriate authentication and authorization controls. Develop verification mechanisms that allow agents to validate whether an action or task was successfully completed. Integrate agentic workflows with MCP and other enterprise tool protocols. MCP & Enterprise Integration Develop and integrate Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and tools. Connect agents with enterprise systems including databases, APIs, Git/GitHub, Slack, Jira, Artifactory, CRM platforms, and other