Remote
US
$293K–$380K
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Tribe embeds senior AI engineers and technical leaders directly into enterprise clients to drive AI transformation that actually ships. We're not a traditional consulting firm — we're operators who build alongside clients, own outcomes, and leave behind systems and capabilities that endure.
The Forward Deployed CTO is a field executive who owns the technical transformation of a focused portfolio of enterprise clients — and uses that work to build something lasting for Tribe.
This isn't a delivery management role. You're not running status meetings or coordinating handoffs. You're the person a Fortune 500 CTO calls when they need to make a consequential decision about AI, and you're also the person building the methodology that makes Tribe's delivery consistently excellent across every account.
You'll own 1–2 high-stakes client engagements deeply — setting technical direction, leading cross-functional teams, and holding the bar on what ships. In parallel, you'll translate what you learn in the field into reusable Tribe IP: architecture patterns, evaluation frameworks, deployment playbooks. That internal work is as central to the role as the client work.
This is the role for a technical founder-operator who wants to drive transformation at scale without taking all the startup risk.
The bottleneck in enterprise AI is no longer model capability — it's deployment. Getting from a working prototype to a system that materially changes a company's revenue or cost line is hard, and most firms can't do it consistently. Tribe can, and the FD-CTO is the person who proves it at the highest level.
The FDE function is the fastest-growing role in tech — FDE job postings grew 729% year-over-year in 2026. OpenAI formalized its deployment function at scale. The category is being defined in real time, and Tribe is building the best forward-deployed team in AI.
What you build here — the methodology, the frameworks, the client relationships, the team — is a body of work you'll point to for the rest of your career.
USD 300,000 - 450,000
Annually
Health Insurance
Equity / RSUs
Pay Transparency
Unlimited PTO
Company Offsites / Retreats
Tribe AI is Remote-First. Most current openings on its careers site are listed as United States, Remote, while two operations roles are based onsite in New York and one recruiting role is hybrid in Lisbon, Portugal. The careers site footer lists offices in New York, San Francisco, and Lisbon.
Yes. Every open role on Tribe AI's careers site shows a published salary band directly on the posting, and every role is tagged as offering equity. US roles are banded in US dollars, and the Lisbon-based recruiting role is banded in euros.
Tribe AI runs a structured four-step process: a recruiter introduction, conversations with the team and a co-founder, and a take-home exercise or working session. The company commits to response times, saying it will come back with a clear answer and won't keep candidates waiting.
Forward-deployed is Tribe AI's default working model: instead of building from a distance, team members sit with the enterprise teams they serve, learn how those teams actually operate, and build AI that creates value from day one. The Forward Deployed AI Engineer posting states plainly that you'll be embedded with enterprise clients.
Tribe AI interviewed and scored every employee across six AI-capability dimensions and gave each person an individual growth profile. Findings from that internal AI-fluency program, including that most home-built AI tools never made it past a single laptop, went on to shape the company's quarterly priorities.
