Forward Deployed AI Engineer

About the role

We’re looking for an AI Deployment Engineer with 3–6 years of experience to work closely with portfolio businesses, understand their operational challenges, and build production‑grade AI and agentic solutions that create measurable impact. This highly hands‑on role involves taking projects from opportunity identification through development, deployment, optimization, and handoff.

Key responsibilities

• Work directly with portfolio companies to understand workflows, pain points, and business priorities.
• Identify high‑impact AI and agentic workflow opportunities and build end‑to‑end solutions, including backend integrations, prompts, evaluations, and user‑facing interfaces.
• Monitor production systems, improve reliability, performance, and autonomy, and document successful approaches for reuse.
• Partner with general managers and non‑technical stakeholders to translate needs into technical solutions and take ownership from discovery to production rollout.
• Travel regularly to portfolio company locations and collaborate on‑site.

Required profile

• 3–6 years of experience in full‑stack engineering, customer‑facing software, solutions or forward‑deployed engineering.
• Strong business judgment with ability to understand operational workflows and translate them into technical solutions.
• Experience working directly with customers, operators, or business stakeholders.
• Ability to independently take a project from problem understanding through implementation and production deployment.

Required skills

• Full‑stack development: TypeScript or Python, React, SQL.
• Building and deploying production LLM or agentic applications.
• Evaluations, monitoring, autonomy controls, and outcome measurement for AI‑powered systems.
• Familiarity with Snowflake, Databricks, Apache Iceberg, event‑driven systems.

What we offer

• Salary range $180,000–$260,000 USD per year.
• Competitive equity package.