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AvePoint

Forward Deployed Engineer - AI

AI summary of the role

Builds and advises on client AI governance and solutions as a Forward Deployed Engineer for AvePoint's enterprise customers.

What you’ll do

  • Lead workshops helping clients understand and control their AI landscape including shadow AI and compliance obligations.
  • Scope AI build projects: define success criteria, translate requirements into technical scopes and write statements of work.
  • Develop prototypes and production components: agent workflows, RAG, LLM integrations, governance controls for client solutions.

What you’ll bring

  • .NET equivalent: 5+ years software engineering, solutions architecture, or technical consulting with 2+ years hands-on modern AI/LLM systems in real projects.
  • Practical experience building with LLM APIs/frameworks (Azure OpenAI, Bedrock, Vertex, LangChain, Semantic Kernel) and RAG, agentic workflows, tool calling.
  • Strong programming in Python and/or C#/TypeScript plus fluency with one major cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP) identity, networking, data.

Technologies

Azure OpenAI · AWS Bedrock · Google Vertex AI · LangChain · Semantic Kernel · RAG · MCP · Pinecone · Milvus · Weaviate · Chroma · Python

About AvePoint

AvePoint provides cloud data management, governance, and security software for enterprises and MSPs across Microsoft 365, Google, and Salesforce collaboration platforms.

Public · 2000–5000 people

Source and classification

Production engineering · Evidence for this classification:

things at once: speak credibly about AI trust, governance, and security, and actually build. The Forward Deployed Engineer (AI) is that partner. You are the technical face of AvePoint inside client organizations: equally comfortable whiteboarding AI trust and governance concepts with a CISO, translating a business problem into a scoped AI build project, and writing the first working prototype yourself. You embed with clients, ship real outcomes, and own the engagement end to end. This is not a pre-sales role with a demo script, and not a back-office delivery role. It is the engagement model pioneered by leading AI companies for their strategic enterprise customers: a senior engineer deployed forward, with the autonomy to own the problem from first workshop to production. What you'll do Advise on AI trust and governance. Lead workshops that help clients understand and take control
More from the job description

About AvePoint AvePoint is the global leader in data protection, unifying data security, governance, and resilience to provide a trusted foundation for AI. More than 28,000 customers rely on the AvePoint Confidence Platform to secure, govern, and rapidly recover data across Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, and other cloud environments. With a single platform for lifecycle control, multicloud governance, and rapid recovery paired with clear ownership across the business, we prevent overexposure and sprawl, modernize legacy and fragmented data, and minimize data loss and interruption. Our global partner ecosystem includes approximately 6,000 MSPs, VARs, and SIs, and our solutions are available in over 100 cloud marketplaces. To learn more, visit www.avepoint.com. About the Role Enterprises are adopting AI faster than they can govern it — and they are looking for a partner who can do two things at once: speak credibly about AI trust, governance, and security, and actually build. The Forward Deployed Engineer (AI) is that partner. You are the technical face of AvePoint inside client organizations: equally comfortable whiteboarding AI trust and governance concepts with a CISO, translating a business problem into a scoped AI build project, and writing the first working prototype yourself. You embed with clients, ship real outcomes, and own the engagement end to end. This is not a [... source excerpt omitted ...] t model pioneered by leading AI companies for their strategic enterprise customers: a senior engineer deployed forward, with the autonomy to own the problem from first workshop to production. What you'll do Advise on AI trust and governance. Lead workshops that help clients understand and take control of their AI landscape — agents, copilots, models, and the data behind them, including the shadow AI they didn't know about. Explain AI governance, security posture, and resilience concepts credibly to both technical teams and executives. Guide clients through obligations such as the EU AI Act, NIS2, and ISO 42001, and help them stand up practical operating models: AI inventories, a [... source excerpt omitted ...] Sit with business stakeholders to understand the underlying need behind "we want AI for X." Identify the highest-value use cases, define success criteria, and translate ambiguous requirements into concrete, estimable technical scopes — architecture outlines, data and integration requirements, delivery phases, effort and risk assessments. Write statements of work that engineering teams can actually deliver and clients can actually sign. Build and deliver. Develop prototypes and production components for client AI solutions: agent workflows, RAG pipelines, LLM integrations (Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex, Anthropic), MCP-based tool integrations, and the governance and secu

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