Lead Forward-Deployed AI Engineer (Remote-friendly)

Palo IT; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly arrangements

Swile meal vouchers

Alan health insurance

Career coaching

Gen-e² skill ramp-up from week 1

Job summary

PALO IT is searching for a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer to own AI-powered product delivery from discovery to production. You will work closely with Fortune 1000 clients across finance, retail, and energy, translating complex business problems into scalable AI-native solutions.

This hands-on, client-facing role requires deep full-stack expertise and daily use of AI coding tools to accelerate development while maintaining high quality.

Qualifications

• 10+ years hands-on software engineering with client-facing delivery experience.
• Ability to independently manage all project phases from discovery to production.
• Deep full-stack expertise (ReactJS front-end; .NET, Java, or Python back-end).
• Experience deploying LLM- or generative AI-powered systems.
• Strong architecture and design capabilities with excellent communication and stakeholder management.
• Autonomous, proactive, outcome-oriented, and comfortable leading senior conversations.
• Experience mentoring or leading small teams.
• Familiarity with enterprise constraints - risk, compliance, complex stakeholder environments.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end project delivery: lead discovery, scope work, architect, develop prototypes, and deliver production-ready AI systems.
• Client engagement: run discovery sessions, frame needs, manage expectations, build trust with stakeholders.
• Team leadership: mentor engineers and nurture autonomous AI delivery teams.
• Strategic advising: collaborate with Sales to craft proposals and designs.
• AI-native excellence: champion prompt engineering, output validation, guardrails, fallback strategies.
• Continuous improvement: capture field insights to strengthen tools and playbooks.

Skills

Full-stack development

Client-facing delivery

ReactJS

Backend: .NET/Java/Python

LLM / Generative AI

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Autonomy

Job description

PALO IT is searching for a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer to own AI-powered product delivery from discovery to production. You will work closely with Fortune 1000 clients across finance, retail, and energy, translating complex business problems into scalable AI-native solutions.

This hands-on, client-facing role requires deep full-stack expertise and daily use of AI coding tools to accelerate development while maintaining high quality.