Forward Deployed Engineer, AI and Agentic SDLCActive

The opportunity

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation.

What you'll do

  • Design and build agentic systems using models, tools, action loops,: orchestration, context, retrieval, state, memory, evaluation, tracing, and human oversight.

  • Develop context and knowledge systems using approaches such as: retrieval-augmented generation, cache-augmented generation, graph-based retrieval, repository understanding, and context optimization.

  • Work directly in strategic customer environments to understand technical: friction and turn ambiguous needs into working solutions.

  • Build agent workflows, integrations, evaluation suites, reference: architectures, and product capabilities that improve customer outcomes.

  • Contribute production-quality changes across GitLab Duo Agent Platform and the broader GitLab product.

  • Evaluate and improve system quality, reliability, latency, cost, token use,: safety, authorization, governance, and developer experience.

What they're looking for

  • Diagnose failures across models, context, retrieval, tool use, control flow,: product behavior, permissions, and surrounding software-development workflows.
  • Partner with Product and Engineering as an extension of their teams,: accelerating work while aligning with product direction and engineering standards.
  • Generalize customer-specific learning into reusable platform capabilities,: implementation patterns, and technical guidance.
  • Provide Staff-level technical leadership through architecture,: implementation, review, mentorship, and influence across teams.