CareerPlan

Forward Deployment Engineer

USAFull-time$103k–$143k2026-11-09

Core

Build and operate AI-native software, AI agents, and automation systems across product, data, and infrastructure.

Role type

Senior IC Forward Deployment Engineer (AI Agents & Full Stack)

Builds

AI agents, automation systems, data pipelines, and analytical tools

Domain

AI/LLM Agents, Cloud Infrastructure, Data Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

LLM APIs, AI Agents, Prompt Engineering, React, TypeScript, Python, Node.js, REST/GraphQL, Databricks, PySpark, AWS (S3, Lambda, Glue, Redshift), Infrastructure-as-Code

Preferred skills

Streamlit, Tableau, Evidence, MCP

Technologies

AWS Lambda, Redshift, Databricks, PySpark, React, TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL, REST, MCP, Cursor, Claude, Codex

Responsibilities

Build and ship AI agents and automation systems using tool calling and agentic design patterns; Evaluate and correct variable model outputs; Create agent skills and AI-assisted workflows; Design and maintain Databricks and AWS data pipelines; Make architectural decisions between agent- or LLM-based approaches; Deploy, debug, and operate services in AWS

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC