Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Applied AI

$82,082–$193,440Chicago, IL · Atlanta, GA · +3 moreChicago, IL +4HybridToday

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About the job

Forward Deploy Engineers lead customer-facing Applied AI delivery, converting conversational prototypes into secure, production-ready agentic systems and establishing Customer User Journeys for major customers.

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What you’ll do

Lead development of production-grade Conversational AI, CX applications, and agentic workflows
Architect integrations between Google's Conversational AI products and enterprise infrastructure
Build evaluation pipelines and observability frameworks for agent reasoning, tool selection, latency, and security
Connect agents to enterprise knowledge bases and optimize RAG chunking

What you’ll bring

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
5 years of software development experience using Python or similar coding languages
Experience architecting AI systems on cloud platforms such as GCP
Experience deploying resources with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools

Technologies

Python · GCP · Terraform · MCP servers · ReAct · RAG · MLOps · Conversational AI · multi-agent systems · microservices

About Capgemini

Capgemini helps organizations transform through consulting, technology, engineering, cloud, data and AI, and managed business operations.

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Pay and conditions

Posted pay: $82,082–$193,440
Pay details
The base compensation range for this role in the posted location is $82,082 to $193,440
Location: Chicago, IL · Atlanta, GA · +3 more
Work arrangement: Hybrid
Employment type: Full-time
Experience requirements: 5+ years

The work, as we read it

Kind of work: Builds what the customer runs

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How this compares

The middle of this range is $138,000, below the $197,000 median for the 1,735 US FDE postings that state one. Half of those sit between $162,000 and $230,000.

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