Forward Deployed AI Engineer

$200,000–$250,000New York, NYOn-siteSeniorToday

About the job

Forward-deployed AI engineer owning enterprise generative-AI engagements end to end, from identifying high-value customer problems and shaping architecture through production deployment and measurable ROI.

Summary written from the posting.

What you’ll do

Discover high-value customer problems and translate business needs into technical direction
Architect and build production AI systems, including multi-agent workflows, RAG, APIs, data pipelines, and distributed systems
Lead solutions from discovery through deployment and measurable client impact
Own evaluation, observability, security, reliability, latency, scalability, and cost

What you’ll bring

8+ years building and operating sophisticated production software systems
Expertise in Python, backend systems, APIs, databases, distributed systems, system design, and cloud infrastructure
Experience building production LLM and agent systems with orchestration, tool use, retrieval, memory, and multistep workflows
Track record owning complex systems from architecture through deployment and scale

Technologies

Python · LLM · RAG · multi-agent workflows · orchestration · context engineering · distributed systems · APIs · databases · cloud infrastructure

Pay and conditions

Posted pay: $200,000–$250,000
Pay details
Compensation: $200,000–$250,000 base salary + equity
Location: New York, NY
Work arrangement: On-site
Experience requirements: 8+ years

The work, as we read it

Kind of work: Production engineering

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How this compares

This range sits above the median posted range for US FDE postings with a range ($154,000–$233,000 across 1,711 postings).

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