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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
Eliza
AustinOn-site11mo ago
- Employment
- Full-time
- Seniority
- Senior
About the role
About Us
Job Summary
Key Responsibilities
1. Technical Leadership & Solution Design
- Lead architecture and design of AI/ML solutions tailored to unique client requirements, balancing scalability, performance, and maintainability.
- Guide clients through decisions related to LLM integration, data engineering, infrastructure design, and model operations.
- Own end-to-end solution delivery, from exploration and rapid prototyping to production deployment and handoff.
2. Client Engagement & Consulting
- Serve as the senior technical point of contact during client engagements—trusted by executives, product leaders, and technical teams alike.
- Conduct technical discovery, shape implementation roadmaps, and communicate risks and trade-offs clearly to diverse stakeholders.
- Influence long-term client strategy through technical advisory, architectural reviews, and enablement sessions.
3. Deep AI Engineering
- Build AI-driven applications using modern frameworks and tools (e.g., Python, LangChain, FastAPI, Docker, cloud-native platforms).
- Design and implement workflows involving generative AI (e.g., retrieval-augmented generation, prompt tuning, embeddings pipelines).
- Collaborate with internal research, data, and platform teams to extend company-wide best practices to client-specific contexts.
4. Mentorship & Technical Enablement
- Mentor junior engineers and consultants across engagements, fostering a high bar for technical quality and client service.
- Help define internal tooling, architecture patterns, and deployment playbooks based on field experience.
- Represent the engineering team in pre-sales discussions, project scoping, and high-stakes strategic planning.
Qualifications
Required
- 5–8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in AI/ML-focused roles.
- Demonstrated experience leading technical delivery in a client-facing or consulting environment.
- Strong understanding of modern AI architectures, including experience deploying LLMs, building RAG pipelines, and working with vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS).
- Fluency in Python, with experience in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containerization, and scalable API design.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; able to command technical and business conversations with senior stakeholders.
Preferred
- Experience in regulated or high-complexity environments (e.g., finance, healthcare, legal, government).
- Familiarity with enterprise AI lifecycle tools (e.g., MLflow, Ray, Databricks, Airflow).
- Contributions to open-source AI tools or internal frameworks in previous roles.
- Willingness to travel for key client engagements (if applicable).
What We Offer
- Executive-level impact and visibility across high-profile client projects.
- Leadership opportunities in a rapidly growing AI services company.
- Competitive compensation, including salary, performance bonuses, and equity.
- Remote flexibility with options for on-site work and client immersion.
- A high-trust, high-caliber team passionate about shaping the AI frontier.
Perks & benefits
- Equity Compensation
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