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The Forward Deployed Engineer serves as the mid senior architect of the Frontier pod, acting as the principal technical advisor to both the pod and the client. This role involves designing and deploying custom agents and agentic workflows while governing permissions, context sharing, and data access. You will architect agentic deployments on enterprise platforms, design trust layers, and define AI orchestration architecture including state, tool calling, and failure mode patterns. Key responsibilities include designing quality assurance frameworks, synthetic data strategies, and engineering enterprise knowledge bases with ontologies and retrieval pipelines. You must translate complex domain requirements into functional specifications. Required technical skills include RAG, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Agentic AI, Generative AI, and Enterprise Architecture to solve complex problems within the domain.
What does a Forward Deployed Engineer earn?
Median $209075 from 40 postings across 19 companies.
Agentic System Architecture
AI Orchestration
RAG
Knowledge Graph
Ontology Engineering
Copilot Studio
Agentforce
Java
Spring Boot
.NET
Node.js
Angular
APIs
Microservices
MCP
synthetic-data
AI Security
Generative AI
Agentic AI
LLMs
RAG
Vector Databases
Prompt Engineering
Agent Orchestration
MLOps
LLMOps
Google Cloud Platform
Microsoft Azure
Amazon Web Services
Microservices
APIs
Containers
Event-driven Systems
Cloud-native Platforms
Responsible AI
Agentic AI
Generative AI
Large Language Models (LLMs)
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Enterprise Architecture
Multi-Agent Systems
Responsible AI
AI Governance
Cloud-native AI Architectures
MLOps
Azure
AWS
GCP
AI Security
Human-in-the-Loop AI Systems