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Agent Engineer

Location
NYC
Employment type
Full-time
Date opened
2026-07-20

The Role

This is a true 0→1 role focused on the part of the product that makes our AI workers feel magical: the agent layer. You'll design and build agent behaviors, prompt and tool-use pipelines, evaluations, and the guardrails that keep our agents reliable on the messy, real-world inputs that manufacturing throws at them — dirty PDFs, legacy data, and edge-case workflows that break naive systems.

Expect deep, hands-on work with LLMs every day: rapid prototyping, building eval harnesses to measure quality, and tightening the loop between what agents do and what customers actually need. Our stack is TypeScript end-to-end (React + NodeJS) with PostgreSQL. You'll own agent features end-to-end and help set the bar for how we build reliable applied AI.

Who you are

  • You have 2+ years of software engineering experience, ideally with real LLM or agent work
  • You're fluent with LLM APIs, prompting, tool-use, and building evals to measure and improve quality
  • You're obsessive about reliability — you make agents work on the ugly 20% of inputs, not just the happy path
  • You're comfortable working across the stack in TypeScript and building small features as needed
  • You care about our mission, and you want to see the American manufacturing base get stronger
  • You're excited to work in person 5 days a week in our NYC office
  • You have a founder and growth mindset, and you're constantly experimenting with new AI tooling

Bonus points

  • You've built and operated agentic systems in production
  • Experience with RAG, evaluation frameworks, and agent orchestration
  • Prior experience with our stack: TypeScript / NodeJS / React / PostgreSQL
  • Experience integrating and deploying a large number of third-party API integrations

About Forgepoint

Revitalize an industry. Rebuild America's manufacturing backbone.

America builds satellites, jet engines, semiconductors, and more with world-class precision, but the software running factory offices is decades behind. Estimators, procurement teams, and accountants still lose hours to spreadsheets, PDFs, and manual data entry.

Forgepoint builds AI workers for quoting, purchasing, invoicing, and sales coordination. By removing back-office bottlenecks, we help US manufacturers move faster, grow, and compete globally.

We're backed by a16z speedrun and angels from Brex, Xwing, and Betterment. Join us in rebuilding the digital foundation of American manufacturing.

Our Founders

Jack Strauss — Co-Founder & CEO

Jack began his career at Acer and Northrop Grumman, then advised industrial companies at Bain. At Xwing, he helped scale the company and led GTM through its acquisition by Joby Aviation. He holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA from USC.

Alex Pareto — Co-Founder & CTO

Alex began at Meta, founded YC-backed Demeanor, and joined NTWRK after its acquisition. He later became a founding engineer on Brex Spend Management and led its engineering organization. He holds a BS in Computer Science from USC.

How we work

  • In person every day in NYC for high-bandwidth collaboration
  • Talk to users constantly — we build with manufacturers, not for them
  • Own outcomes end-to-end and drive solutions without waiting for permission

Our Values

  • We're Here to Win: We are building to help American manufacturers, our customers, our company, and our teammates win at the highest level.
  • There's Always a Way: We are relentlessly resourceful, take ownership of constraints, and find a path forward when others stop.
  • Truth Over Comfort: We choose honesty over ego, surface reality quickly, and change course when the facts demand it.
  • Act Now: We move fast, trust our instincts, and correct course as we go.
  • Step Up: We act like founders, fill gaps, fix problems, and follow through until the work is done.
  • The Team. The Team. The Team.: We put the team first, push and support each other, share wins, and own failures together.

Comp & Benefits

  • Top-tier salary & equity
  • Great healthcare
  • Dinner at the office
  • Unlimited Celsius
  • Travel across the USA to spend time with customers on their shop floors

Location

Onsite in New York City, five days a week.