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Listed pay typically runs
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The Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Enablement) joins the AI Platform team to transform artificial intelligence into practical solutions for internal business functions like Sales, Marketing, Business Development, and Finance. This role involves identifying business problems and owning the engineering lifecycle from discovery through production launch. You will build AI applications, agents, skills, connectors, and workflow automations that improve operational quality, speed, capacity, and cost. Key responsibilities include translating ambiguous needs into technical delivery plans, prototyping quickly, and integrating approved data, tools, and APIs into safe workflows. Required skills include 5+ years of software engineering experience, hands-on agent development, LLM retrieval, structured outputs, and enterprise integrations using MCP. You will also manage cloud deployment, observability, evals, and failure analysis to ensure reliable production quality.
What does a Forward Deployed Engineer earn?
Median $219575 from 46 postings across 19 companies.
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
Large Language Models
AI Platform
Distributed Systems
Workflow Systems
Context Engineering
Human-in-the-loop
Internal Developer Platform
Platform Engineering