Forward Deployed Engineer

About Giga

Giga has recently raised a $61M Series A and is working with Fortune 500 customers to deploy the next generation of customer experience — real-time AI agents that can understand emotion, resolve issues instantly, and scale across the world's largest enterprises. Industry leaders like DoorDash trust Giga with their most complex support and operations workflows across voice, chat, and email, in high-stakes regulated environments where accuracy and compliance matter.

We're at an exciting inflection point. While we've found real commercial success, our ambitions are larger: to become the go-to AI platform for all enterprise automation, powered by our voice superintelligence.

About the Role

We're seeking an Agent Engineer to join our San Francisco and New York team. You'll serve as a technical interface between Giga and our customers, building and deploying sophisticated solutions.

What You'll Do:

• Assisting customer engagements from start to end: run discovery calls & demos, build/maintain world class agents, participate in customer calls, and serve as the primary PoC in a fast-paced environment.
• Own the full agent development life cycle: build and prototype quickly, set up CI/CD, monitor live usage, iterate to targets, debug live issues, communicate with customers, and document best practices to speed up future projects.
• Close the feedback loop with product & platform: capture unmet needs, prototype new features, contribute directly to the codebase, and collaborate with core teams to strengthen the platform for all customers.

Who You Are / Must-Haves:

• Know the basics: Understanding of React, Python, tool calls, APIs, etc.
• Interpersonal Acumen: Able to solve problems in a people-centric manner and communicate effectively, with experience/interest in customer-facing roles.
• Entrepreneurial: Preference for candidates with aspirations who want to be founders or leaders.
• Gritty: Capable of working long productive hours, customer focused, very high attention to detail.
• Coachable: Be able to take in feedback and adapt at a quick pace.
• Experience: 1-3 years of experience; computer science, analytics, or consultant background strongly preferred.

Perks & Benefits

• Catered lunch daily
• Dinner stipend
• $150/month wellness benefit
• 401(k) plan
• Paid parental leave
• Commuter benefits
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage