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Overview: As a Forward Deployed AI Engineer, you will embed with client teams to operationalize AI platforms in real enterprises. You own outcomes, driving time-to-value, reliability, adoption, and scalability with business metrics. You translate complex architecture into tangible business impact for CTOs, CFOs, and CISOs, shaping AI roadmaps and adoption strategy. You’ll build reusable patterns and accelerators to leave clients empowered to run independently, while solving hard, enterprise-scale AI problems.
Responsibilities: Embed with client teams to deploy and scale AI platforms in enterprise environments Own end-to-end production outcomes with business metrics Turn ambiguous problems into production-ready systems through rapid prototyping Design and govern AI architectures across identity, data, security, governance, and workflow layers Translate technical architecture into business impact for client leadership; shape ROI backlogs Create reusable patterns, playbooks, and accelerators for client use after engagement Lead design workshops, PoCs, architecture walkthroughs, and code-with sessions with client teams Codify patterns and lessons learned to scale the FDE practice
Key requirements: Engineering experience with cloud-native systems (APIs, microservices, containerization, serverless) Deep expertise in agentic solutions (agents, orchestration, context engineering, RAG, workflows) in production Experience with AI platforms (OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI) and multi-provider pipelines Production deployments experience, CI/CD, infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm) End-to-end delivery ownership in client-embedded environments Ability to quantify deployment impact in business terms recognizable by executives Experience presenting to senior client stakeholders (CTO, CFO, CISO) Non-linear profiles welcome; emphasis on deployment outcomes over CV patterns Stakeholder management Clear business-value communication Collaboration across cross-functional teams Cloud-native architectures (APIs, microservices, containers, serverless) Agentic computing and orchestration, context engineering, RAG AI platforms and multi-provider integration (OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI)

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Level

Manager

Location

Birmingham, AL

Occupation

Computer Systems Engineers/Architects

Industry

Computer Systems Design Services

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today

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