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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA💼 Full-time💰 $156,060–$156,060🗓 2026-07-30 → 2026-09-26

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

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