Director of Forward Deployed Engineering for AI Agents

Reposted Yesterday
Easy Apply
7 Locations
Remote or Hybrid
Expert/Leader
Artificial Intelligence • Insurance • Software
Liberate is an AI company building AI voice agents and workflow automations for the insurance industry.
The Role
Lead and scale forward-deployed engineering pods to convert complex customer workflows into production AI agent deployments. Build operating cadence, quality bars, deployment playbooks, partner with product, and hire/coach leaders while staying technically hands-on to ensure reliable, observable, and safe agent systems.
Summary Generated by Built In
About Us:

Liberate builds AI agents to automate manual tasks for the $2.7T insurance industry. We started with voice — the hardest and most valuable channel in insurance — and are now expanding into full workflow automation across sales, servicing, and claims. Our long-term vision is to build reasoning agents capable of handling the entire spectrum of insurance carrier and broker operations. We've raised $72M to date, including a $50M Series B in October 2025, backed by top-tier venture firms.

Location: Boston or Bay Area, hybrid preferred (2x/week in office)

Reporting: VP Engineering, dotted line partnership with CPO, and Customer Success leadership

Mission
Build and scale Liberate’s forward deployed agent engineering function. Turn complex customer workflows into production grade agent deployments quickly, safely, and repeatably, while feeding product and platform improvements upstream.

What you will do

  • Lead multiple forward deployed pods delivering customer facing agent workflows end to end.
  • Build the operating system, intake and scoping, technical discovery, success metrics, deployment gating, and post launch validation.
  • Define and enforce engineering quality bars for agent systems, eval coverage, reliability, and observability.
  • Partner with Product to translate repeated customer patterns into roadmap priorities and platform primitives.
  • Own planning cadence, monthly lookahead and quarterly execution, capacity, dependencies, and predictable delivery.
  • Coach pod leads and senior engineers, hire and develop managers as needed.
  • Stay hands on where it matters, debug hard issues, review designs, set the technical bar.

What we are looking for

  • 10+ years in software engineering, 5+ in engineering leadership, ideally scaling customer facing or forward deployed teams.
  • Strong systems instincts, distributed systems, APIs, reliability, production debugging.
  • Comfort with AI agent systems, orchestration, evals, tool calling, safety patterns, and rapid iteration.
  • Customer facing leadership presence, you can translate ambiguity into a plan and deliver.

Success looks like

  • Faster time to production for new deployments, fewer surprises, higher reuse of patterns.
  • Clear signal into platform, fewer one off builds, more leverage over time.
  • Predictable delivery across pods with a consistent quality bar.

What you own

  • Own outcomes for forward deployed agent delivery across multiple customers or verticals, reliability, eval quality, timeline predictability.
  • Build the playbook, intake, scoping, deployment methodology, rollout gates, post launch learning loop.
  • Set quality bars for agent systems, evals, safety patterns, observability, incident learnings, and what goes upstream into the platform.
  • Staff and grow pod leads, coach senior ICs into leads, keep execution tight when teams are fluid.

Top Skills

Ai Agents
APIs
Distributed Systems
Evals
Observability
Orchestration
Production Debugging
Reliability
Tool Calling
Voice
Am I A Good Fit?
beta
Get Personalized Job Insights.
Our AI-powered fit analysis compares your resume with a job listing so you know if your skills & experience align.

The Company
HQ: Berkeley, California
45 Employees
Year Founded: 2022

What We Do

Liberate Innovations Inc. is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for the P&C insurance industry to fully automate claims and underwriting journeys enabling P&C insurers to deliver an exceptional customer experience at the industry’s lowest cost. Insurers use the cloud-based low-code platform to build digital self-serve experiences and orchestrate an ecosystem of solutions providers and core systems to automate complex business processes. For more information, visit www.liberateinc.com.

Why Work With Us

Liberate is a fast-growing, exciting San Francisco-based AI Startup (Series B) that still maintains a people-first culture.

Gallery

Gallery

Similar Jobs

Babylist Logo Babylist

Senior Product Designer

eCommerce • Healthtech • Kids + Family • Retail • Social Media
Easy Apply
Remote or Hybrid
2 Locations
300 Employees
178K-214K Annually

TransUnion Logo TransUnion

Bilingual Incident Coordinator (12-month maternity leave contract)

Big Data • Fintech • Information Technology • Business Intelligence • Financial Services • Cybersecurity • Big Data Analytics
Remote or Hybrid
Ontario, ON, CAN
13000 Employees
46K-69K Annually

CrowdStrike Logo CrowdStrike

Business Continuity Specialist - Exercises & Testing (Remote)

Cloud • Computer Vision • Information Technology • Sales • Security • Cybersecurity
Remote or Hybrid
7 Locations
10000 Employees
86K-135K Annually

CrowdStrike Logo CrowdStrike

Benefits Manager-Canada & LATAM (Remote)

Cloud • Computer Vision • Information Technology • Sales • Security • Cybersecurity
Remote or Hybrid
10 Locations
10000 Employees

Similar Companies Hiring

Fairly Even Thumbnail
Software • Sales • Robotics • Other • Hospitality • Hardware
New York, NY
Bellagent Thumbnail
Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • Business Intelligence • Generative AI
Chicago, IL
20 Employees
Kepler  Thumbnail
Fintech • Software
New York, New York
6 Employees

Sign up now Access later

Create Free Account

Please log in or sign up to report this job.

Create Free Account