Forward-Deployed Engineer / AI Product Manager
Tuning Research · India (hybrid, at client sites)
About Tuning Research
Tuning Research is an applied AI engineering company, founded by IIT Kanpur alumni, that builds production-grade agentic AI systems for enterprises. We’re a 20-person team that works as an extended AI team for our clients across knowledge and documents, business operations, video intelligence, voice AI and marketing automation.
About the role
We’re hiring a Forward-Deployed AI Product Manager to own client transformations end to end: scope it, design it, build parts of it, ship it, and get it used.
You’ll be the one person from Tuning Research who lives inside the client’s business. Typically that’s a mid-to-large Indian enterprise replacing spreadsheets and legacy systems (HRMS, ERP, accounts, operations) with AI-native software. You sit with their teams, work out what should be built, design it, build and ship parts of it yourself, and make sure hundreds of people actually use it. A small remote team of AI, full-stack and mobile engineers works with you,



and our founders stay closely involved.
The title says product manager, but the job is closer to a forward-deployed engineer: half product, half engineering, all of it on the customer’s ground.
What a week looks like
• Monday: At the client’s office. Stand-ups with business teams to agree priorities and blockers.
• Tuesday: Building. Backend endpoints, data migration scripts, an AI extraction flow, or a Figma screen.
• Wednesday: On the floor or at a site. Watch people use what shipped, demo it, capture what’s wrong.
• Thursday: Review the engineers’ code, test on real data, deploy, and fix what breaks.
• Friday: Write next week’s specs, then review with our founders and client leadership.

What you’ll do
Scope the right thing
• Run discovery across departments and map how work, material and money actually flow.
• Separate what people ask for from what they need. Decide what is configuration, what

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