Forward AI Deployment Engineer (FDE)
Core
Design, build, and optimize cutting-edge AI deployment systems (autonomous agents, orchestration layers) for greenfield products and established platforms, serving directly with customers.
Role type
Senior IC AI Deployment Engineer (Customer-facing)
Builds
Production-grade AI solutions, LLM workflows, RAG pipelines, agentic systems, and custom data pipelines
Domain
Enterprise AI / Large Language Models / Agentic Systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
AI/ML deployment, system engineering, LLM architecture, RAG pipeline design, agentic system design, custom data pipeline engineering, rapid prototyping
Preferred skills
Strategic guidance, end-to-end workflow ownership, complex problem translation
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 and take workflows to production; Translate complex business challenges into actionable technical plans; Rapidly prototype AI solutions to demonstrate possibilities to clients; Engineer production-grade AI solutions with deep knowledge of AI tooling and architecture; Design and build LLM workflows, RAG pipelines, agentic systems, and custom data pipelines
