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JOB TITLE: Lead Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Enablement)
As a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer, you will join the AI Enablement team to own the vision for how applied AI solves business problems across functions like Sales, Marketing, Business Development, and Finance. You will identify high-value opportunities, set technical direction, and build production capabilities including AI applications, agents, skills, connectors, and workflow automations. Your day-to-day involves translating ambiguous business problems into AI-native workflows, prototyping solutions, and integrating APIs, data systems, and enterprise tools. You must possess 8+ years of software engineering experience, specifically with production LLMs, retrieval, structured outputs, evals, and MCP. You will lead engineers through design reviews, mentor technical leads, and establish architecture patterns to improve quality, speed, capacity, and cost while ensuring governance and observability for all deployed workflows.
Python
C++
Rust
C
TypeScript
CUDA
HIP
PyTorch
Hugging Face
JAX
TensorFlow
Ray
vLLM
LLM Post-training
Reinforcement Learning
RLHF
PPO
DPO
GRPO
Preference Optimization
Reward Modeling
Distributed Systems
High-Performance Computing
Data Pipelines