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Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Washington D.C. Area💼 Full-time🗓 2026-04-15 → 2026-09-25

Core

Transforming prototype models into scalable, efficient, and reliable production AI systems for secure and distributed environments, operating from government cloud to edge devices.

Role type

Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Builds

Production-ready AI systems, agentic workflows, and optimized inference pipelines for public sector clients.

Domain

Public Sector / Secure Distributed Systems / Edge Computing

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Machine learning system deployment, agentic workflow orchestration, data pipeline debugging, hardware interaction, model inference optimization, technical advisory, cross-stack engineering

Preferred skills

Edge device deployment, distributed systems, DevOps tooling, full-stack application development, privacy-preserving AI, secure compute environments

Technologies

PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX, JAX

Responsibilities

Collaborate with customers to scope, deploy, and maintain AI solutions; Design and deploy agentic workflows for multi-step reasoning; Debug and optimize data pipelines and AI systems on customer networks; Translate ambiguous customer requirements into technical solutions; Work across the stack from model inference to infrastructure automation; Read hardware schematics/logs to identify performance bottlenecks; Serve as a trusted technical advisor to enterprise clients

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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