Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
Core
Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer who builds and deploys LLM/agent systems for enterprise grocery customers while hardening reusable platform infrastructure.
Role type
Senior, hands-on IC (Forward Deployed AI Engineer)
Builds
Production-grade LLM and agent-powered systems, knowledge graphs, and serving infrastructure for grocery partners.
Domain
Grocery retail, AI/LLM, Enterprise Data
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Production software and data systems, AI/LLM depth (RAG, tool-use, agentic workflows), Data engineering (pipelines, enterprise data modeling), Cloud data platforms, Customer-facing technical architecture, System design for messy data
Preferred skills
Grocery/retail/supply chain domain, Knowledge graphs/ontologies, Vector stores (pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate), Agent frameworks (LangGraph), MLOps, MCP protocols
Technologies
LLMs, Agents, Knowledge Graphs, Vector Stores, Cloud Data Platforms (Databricks, BigQuery, Snowflake), LangGraph, pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate
Responsibilities
Scope and architect AI solutions with customer technical teams, Embed with customer data teams to build production pipelines and data products, Design and ship LLM/agent systems for production, Harden field learnings into shared platform knowledge layers and agent frameworks, Build evaluation and tracing tooling for model quality, Create reusable interfaces and building blocks for leverage
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC