Forward Deployment Engineer — Azure AI
Core
Bridge between Azure AI platform and client teams, onboarding projects using runbooks and supporting early operations.
Role type
Senior IC Forward Deployment Engineer (Azure AI)
Builds
Production-ready onboarding of ML/AI workloads onto Azure AI platform
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure + Applied AI (Azure)
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Azure cloud engineering, Azure Well-Architected Framework, Azure AI/ML services, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, ML model deployment lifecycle
Preferred skills
Azure Machine Learning, Azure AI Foundry, Kubernetes, Python scripting, Azure OpenAI/LLM/RAG workloads
Technologies
Microsoft Azure, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, AKS
Responsibilities
Onboard client projects using approved runbooks and golden paths, Apply and adapt Terraform modules and CI/CD pipelines, Support ML workload deployment and lifecycle management, Capture delivery friction and feature requests, Improve runbooks and reusable onboarding patterns, Uphold security and compliance guardrails
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC