Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AI
Core
Lead end-to-end delivery of enterprise AI programs and agentic workflows for strategic customers, acting as a hands-on technical leader and trusted partner.
Role type
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AI (hands-on IC with team leadership)
Builds
Enterprise AI solutions, agentic workflows, and ML pipelines for strategic customers
Domain
Enterprise AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Agentic Systems
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Technical leadership, LLM application development, RAG implementation, agentic workflow design, AI quality evaluation, MLOps, cloud environment deployment, stakeholder communication
Preferred skills
Eval set construction from production traces, structured experimentation (A/B tests, ablations), failure-mode analysis, custom eval harness development, MLOps lifecycle management, data science libraries (pandas, numpy, Snowpark)
Technologies
LLMs, RAG, AWS, Azure, GCP, Braintrust, LangSmith, Arize, Weave, Promptfoo, Snowpark
Responsibilities
Own full lifecycle of complex AI engagements from scoping to deployment; Define AI quality metrics and evaluation frameworks; Mentor a team of 2–6 Applied AI Engineers; Design and ship high-quality ML pipelines; Build safety guardrails and observability workflows; Serve as senior technical advisor to customer leadership
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with team leadership
