Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer
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The ideal candidate will be based in Austin, Texas or in the Washington, D.C./Northern Virginia area. On a case-by-case basis, we will consider fully remote candidates.Full-TimeSenior
Salary not disclosed
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Required Skills
- Machine LearningPyTorchTensorflowDevOpsSoftware EngineeringDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 5+ years of combined experience in software engineering and machine learning.
- Active US Security clearance
- Proven track record of deploying and maintaining machine learning/AI systems in production.
- Strong expertise in ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX, JAX, etc.
- Experience debugging complex systems involving data pipelines, model inference, and hardware interaction.
- Exceptional communication skills; able to challenge vague requirements and turn them into actionable plans.
- Comfortable working in dynamic environments with high customer exposure.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with customers to scope, deploy, and maintain AI solutions in production environments.
- Design, develop, and deploy agentic workflows to orchestrate multi-step reasoning, tool use, and decision-making across production systems.
- Debug and optimize data pipelines and AI systems running on customer networks.
- Translate complex, often ambiguous customer requirements into well-scoped technical solutions.
- Work across the stack—from model inference on consumer hardware to infrastructure automation.
- Read hardware schematics/logs to identify performance bottlenecks and suggest improvements.
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor to enterprise clients, representing the engineering team externally.
- Contribute feedback and insight to internal teams to continuously improve product robustness and usability.
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