Forward AI Deployment Engineer (FDE)
Core
Design, build, and optimize AI deployment systems (LLM workflows, RAG pipelines, agentic systems) for customers, translating business challenges into technical plans and taking solutions to production.
Role type
Senior IC AI Deployment Engineer
Builds
Production-grade AI solutions, LLM workflows, RAG pipelines, and agentic systems
Domain
Enterprise AI / Large Language Models / AI Operations
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
AI/ML deployment, system engineering, LLM architecture, RAG pipeline design, agentic system design, custom data pipeline engineering, AI tooling expertise
Preferred skills
Rapid prototyping, strategic guidance, stakeholder alignment
Technologies
LLM frameworks, RAG frameworks, agentic orchestration tools
Responsibilities
Collaborate with customers to provide strategic guidance and technical expertise; Own the vision for AI operations implementation; Translate complex business challenges into actionable technical plans; Rapidly prototype AI solutions to demonstrate possibilities to clients; Engineer production-grade AI solutions; Design and build LLM workflows, RAG pipelines, agentic systems, and custom data pipelines