Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
Core
Build and deploy production-grade AI/LLM systems for enterprise grocery customers while simultaneously hardening reusable platform infrastructure.
Role type
Staff Forward Deployed AI Engineer (LLM/Agents)
Builds
LLM- and agent-powered systems, knowledge graphs, ontology, retrieval layers, and serving infrastructure for grocery data.
Domain
Grocery retail, supply chain, AI/LLM, data engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Production software and data systems architecture, LLM/agent system design (RAG, tool-use), data pipeline engineering, cloud data platforms, customer-facing technical scoping, observability and evals for AI systems
Preferred skills
Grocery/retail/supply chain domain knowledge, knowledge graphs and vector stores, MCP/agent frameworks, MLOps
Technologies
Databricks, BigQuery, Snowflake, pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate, LangGraph
Responsibilities
Scope and architect AI solutions with customer technical teams, embed with customer data teams to build production pipelines, design and ship LLM/agent systems, harden field learnings into shared platform knowledge graphs and agent frameworks, build evals and tracing tooling for model quality
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with 0-to-1 ownership