Forward Deployed AI Engineer
Core
Embed with strategic enterprise customers to design, prototype, and ship scalable full-stack AI/ML applications and agentic systems.
Role type
Senior IC Forward Deployed AI Engineer (Director level)
Builds
Production-grade AI/ML applications, agentic systems, and reference architectures for enterprise environments
Domain
Enterprise Data & AI / Applied Machine Learning
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Full-stack ML engineering, Data engineering, Applied AI/ML, Foundation models, Context engineering, Fine-tuning, Semantic search, RAG, Agentic workflows, LLMOps/MLOps, Enterprise AI architecture design
Preferred skills
Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP), Cloudera platform, Open source big data technologies (Spark, Iceberg, NiFi), AI infrastructure and runtime technologies (NVIDIA GPUs, inference optimization, model serving)
Responsibilities
Develop full-stack AI/ML applications to demonstrate enterprise use cases, Partner with customer teams to drive AI use cases from prototype to production, Advise customer leaders on AI roadmaps and solution design, Standardize successful patterns into repeatable reference architectures and playbooks, Mentor internal teams and channel customer signals to product teams
Seniority
Director, hands-on IC with strategic influence
