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Liatrio

Principal Forward Deployed Engineer

AI summary of the role

Principal Forward Deployed Engineer leading enterprise architecture and technical strategy for major client engagements, embedding with enterprise teams to drive AI-native transformation and legacy modernization.

What you’ll do

  • Define and drive enterprise architecture and technical strategy across complex client engagements
  • Write and review production code, setting high standards for architecture, resilience, and security
  • Integrate AI and LLM capabilities into enterprise architectures, including agentic systems and RAG platforms
  • Lead large-scale legacy modernizations to cloud-native microservices and event-driven architectures

What you’ll bring

  • 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with significant enterprise architecture or principal-level leadership
  • Proven experience modernizing large legacy applications in enterprise environments
  • Deep expertise in cloud-native distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architectures, and API gateways
  • End-to-end operational experience designing and deploying enterprise AI solutions, including RAG pipelines and evaluation frameworks

Technologies

AI · LLM · RAG · agentic systems · Kubernetes · cloud-native · microservices · event-driven architecture · API gateways · CI/CD

Source and classification

Production engineering · Evidence for this classification:

About Us: At Liatrio, we enable real transformation. We help industry-leading enterprises break free from legacy systems and adopt AI that reshapes how teams build, deliver, and thrive at scale. We partner directly with enterprise teams to embed AI-native practices into delivery by accelerating modernization, reducing risk, and shipping production-grade AI systems that set the standard for the industry. Our people embed directly inside client organizations, leading hands-on AI enablement and transformations that reshape how entire enterprises build and operate at scale. If you’re ready to lead real AI transformation, this is where you belong. About the Role: We are seeking Principal Forward Deployed Engineers who thrive on shipping production software, solving complex systems problems, and pioneering AI-first engineering workflows. As a Principal FDE, you lead the enterprise
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About Us: At Liatrio, we enable real transformation. We help industry-leading enterprises break free from legacy systems and adopt AI that reshapes how teams build, deliver, and thrive at scale. We partner directly with enterprise teams to embed AI-native practices into delivery by accelerating modernization, reducing risk, and shipping production-grade AI systems that set the standard for the industry. Our people embed directly inside client organizations, leading hands-on AI enablement and transformations that reshape how entire enterprises build and operate at scale. If you’re ready to lead real AI transformation, this is where you belong. About the Role: We are seeking Principal Forward Deployed Engineers who thrive on shipping production software, solving complex systems problems, and pioneering AI-first engineering workflows. As a Principal FDE, you lead the enterprise architecture and technical strategy for major client engagements, serving as a trusted advisor to executive leaders. Remaining hands-on in the code, you align delivery with strategic goals, model AI-first practices, and elevate client teams through active mentorship. What You'll Do: Defining and driving the overarching enterprise architecture and technical strategy across complex client engagements Writing and reviewing production code across critical systems: establishing high-watermark standards [... source excerpt omitted ...] ioneering AI-assisted software delivery: using advanced AI coding environments, LLM tooling, and agentic assistants to accelerate refactoring, code generation, and test writing in client codebases Enabling client engineering teams on AI-first practices: hands-on coaching and pairing with client developers to integrate AI coding assistants into their daily development workflows and culture Evaluating and implementing AI safety, observability, and evaluation frameworks: ensuring client AI integrations are secure, reliable, and production-ready rather than just experimental prototypes Leading large-scale legacy modernizations: architecting the migration off monolithic platforms [... source excerpt omitted ...] ivery governance, automated testing standards, security guardrails, and CI/CD best practices across multi-team engagements Mentoring and elevating staff and lead engineers across client and internal Liatrio organizations through architecture reviews, strategic pairing, and hands-on guidance Partnering with executive account leaders on strategic account growth, technical proposal creation, statement of work (SOW) development, and key client pitches Experience and Skills: Engineering and Enterprise Architecture You have a track record of owning the architectural direction of complex workstreams in enterprise environments, you've made the hard technical calls, been accountabl

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