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Forward Deployed Engineer

Palo Alto, California, United States💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-04 → 2026-09-25

Core

Forward Deployed Engineer driving AI transformation for enterprise clients by building and deploying production ML and GenAI solutions.

Role type

Mid-level hands-on IC machine learning engineer (client-facing)

Builds

Production-ready AI systems, ML models, and GenAI workflows for client operations

Domain

Enterprise data & AI, retail/CPG operations

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, SQL, forecasting, time-series modeling, supervised/unsupervised ML, Generative AI, prompt engineering, AI agents, Git, statistical modeling

Preferred skills

Client-facing experience, stakeholder management

Technologies

Python, SQL, Git

Responsibilities

Identify high-leverage AI opportunities, build robust ML and GenAI solutions, deploy production-ready systems, support adoption across client organization, contribute to 1-4 implementations simultaneously, define data requirements and modeling strategies

Seniority

Mid-level, hands-on IC

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