Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AI
Core
Senior technical leader owning end-to-end delivery of enterprise AI programs, leading a team of 2–4 engineers while remaining hands-on with ML pipelines and agentic AI solutions.
Role type
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AI (hands-on IC with team leadership)
Builds
Enterprise AI programs, agentic AI solutions, ML pipelines, safety guardrails, and observability workflows for strategic customers
Domain
Enterprise AI, Agentic Workflows, LLMs, RAG, MLOps
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Technical leadership, LLM application development, RAG implementation, agentic workflow design, AI quality metrics definition, evaluation framework creation, production deployment, stakeholder communication
Preferred skills
Eval set construction from production traces, structured experimentation (A/B tests, ablations), failure-mode analysis for agents/RAG, MLOps lifecycle management, cloud environment deployment (AWS/Azure/GCP)
Technologies
LLMs, RAG, LangSmith, Arize, Weave, Promptfoo, pandas, numpy, Snowpark, AWS, Azure, GCP
Responsibilities
Lead full lifecycle of complex multi-engineer AI engagements from scoping to handoff; Define quality metrics and run systematic eval loops to improve agent quality; Mentor and review work for a team of 2–6 Applied AI Engineers; Design and ship high-quality ML pipelines and agentic AI solutions; Implement safety guardrails and observability in large-scale production environments; Advise customer data science and engineering leadership on AI deployment strategies
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership
