Forward-Deployed AI Engineer: Build Prototypes Fast

Requirements

• 5+ years as a software engineer shipping working systems; recent hands-on experience building LLM-powered or agentic applications
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• Track record of embedding with users or customers — consulting, startup founding engineer, FDE, solutions engineering, internal platform teams, or similar
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• Comfortable owning a product from problem discovery through to working prototype and iteration, and then handing off cleanly to a production team
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• Strong full-stack or backend engineering fundamentals — Python, TypeScript/Node.js or similar — and the willingness to touch whatever layer the problem needs
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• Practical fluency with modern LLMs, agent frameworks, RAG, tool use, evaluation and observability tooling
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• Cloud-native experience on AWS and/or Azure (GCP a plus), with a working understanding of identity, data and deployment patterns
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• Daily use of AI-assisted developer tools and agentic coding workflows — you build w...