Senior Manager, Forward Deployed AI Engineer
Core
Lead end-to-end delivery of complex AI and technology consulting engagements, combining client advisory with hands-on technical leadership to bring AI solutions to production at scale.
Role type
Senior Manager, Forward Deployed AI Engineer (Consulting)
Builds
AI-enabled platforms, cloud solutions, and production-grade agentic/ML systems embedded in client business processes.
Domain
Management Consulting, AI/ML Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | client delivery
Required skills
End-to-end engagement delivery leadership, multi-disciplinary team management, business development and bid support, technical architecture design, agentic AI/LLM engineering, machine learning lifecycle management, cloud platform engineering, software engineering practices
Preferred skills
Prior experience as a forward-deployed or embedded engineer, exposure to regulated industries (energy, financial services, public sector)
Technologies
LLM SDKs, agent frameworks, RAG, MCP servers, PyTorch, XGBoost, SageMaker, Azure ML, Vertex AI, AWS, Azure, GCP, FastAPI, React, Next.js, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, GitLab CI
Responsibilities
Own and lead end-to-end delivery of complex AI and technology consulting engagements; Lead and resource multi-disciplinary delivery teams including engineers and data scientists; Play a leading role in business development, shaping propositions, and supporting bids; Lead architecture design for AI-enabled platforms and cloud solutions; Champion the path from prototype to production for scalable AI deployments
Seniority
Senior Manager, hands-on IC with leadership accountability
