Senior Forward-Deployed AI Engineer

Leadout Capital; Zürich; On-site; CHF 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Leadout Capital seeks a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer in Zürich to design, build, and deploy agentic AI solutions inside customer environments. You will lead a delivery pod and partner with a Deployment Strategist to ship production-ready solutions from day one.

You will mentor engineers, own end-to-end components including prompts, data pipelines, dashboards, and KPI reporting, and collaborate with customers to translate business challenges into actionable AI deployments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering or technical delivery experience, with multiple production systems.
• Fluent in two or more of Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or Apex.
• Deep hands-on experience with LLMs and prompt engineering, APIs, and data modelling.
• Fluent in English and at least one of German or French; travel ~25%.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and build of AI agents and experiences end-to-end in production.
• Build data pipelines and oversee KPI reporting across platforms.
• Lead PoCs and MVPs moving to deployable in days with customers.
• Mentor engineers and translate complex customer challenges into agentic solutions.

Skills

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Java

Apex

LLMs

Prompt engineering

APIs

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

BigQuery

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Job description

Leadout Capital seeks a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer in Zürich to design, build, and deploy agentic AI solutions inside customer environments. You will lead a delivery pod and partner with a Deployment Strategist to ship production-ready solutions from day one.

You will mentor engineers, own end-to-end components including prompts, data pipelines, dashboards, and KPI reporting, and collaborate with customers to translate business challenges into actionable AI deployments.