Forward Deployed Engineer

TechTree; Hong Kong; Hybrid; HKD 1,176,471 - 1,960,785; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

TechTree is recruiting for a Forward Deployed Engineer to build AI workflows for scientific and engineering customers. You will work directly with engineers and researchers, translating customer requirements into practical AI capabilities.

This contract, hybrid role combines prototyping, integration, and deployment of AI-enabled workflows, with 2-3 days in the Hong Kong office. You’ll collaborate across pilots, evaluations, and production deployments.

Qualifications

• MSc or PhD in electrical engineering, photonics, applied physics, applied math, or equivalent.
• 4+ years in software engineering, applied AI, forward deployed, or solutions engineering.
• Strong Python—scientific computing, workflow orchestration, API integration.
• Hands-on with LLMs, APIs, agentic systems, orchestration frameworks.
• Excellent communicator across engineers, managers, and enterprise stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Engage deeply with customer teams to understand design workflows.
• Build high-impact prototypes: AI-assisted modelling, circuit optimisation, simulation automation.
• Design and deploy agentic AI workflows orchestrating LLMs, physics-based models, and customer data.
• Convert field learnings into structured feedback shaping product roadmap.
• Serve as trusted technical partner across pilots, evaluations, and production deployments.

Skills

Strong Python

LLMs

API integration

Orchestration

Communication

Education

MSc/PhD in EE/Physics

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Pydantic

Ray

Job description

This is a role that TechTree is recruiting for on behalf of one of our clients.

TechTree is an AI-driven recruitment platform working with high-growth companies.

When you apply, our AI Agent matches you not just to this role, but to other relevant opportunities across our network, so one application can unlock multiple roles.

Forward Deployed Engineer — Build agentic AI workflows for scientific and engineering customers. Contract, hybrid.

An innovative company is building AI systems that reason with the rigour of the scientific method — combining deep learning with formal logic and physics-based modelling. Mission: a 30×30 improvement in the speed, accessibility, and cost of semiconductor and photonic hardware development by 2030.

As Forward Deployed Engineer, you’ll work directly with engineers and researchers at customer organisations, acting as the technical bridge between customer requirements and product capabilities.

What You’ll Do

• Engage deeply with customer teams to understand design workflows
• Build high-impact prototypes: AI-assisted modelling, circuit optimisation, simulation automation
• Design and deploy agentic AI workflows orchestrating LLMs, physics-based models, and customer data
• Convert field learnings into structured feedback shaping product roadmap
• Serve as trusted technical partner across pilots, evaluations, and production deployments

What We’re Looking For

• MSc or PhD in electrical engineering, photonics, applied physics, applied math, or equivalent
• 4+ years in software engineering, applied AI, forward deployed, or solutions engineering
• Strong Python — scientific computing, workflow orchestration, API integration
• Hands-on with LLMs, APIs, agentic systems, orchestration frameworks
• Excellent communicator across engineers, managers, and enterprise stakeholders

Bonus: LangChain, LlamaIndex, Pydantic, Ray

• EDA environments
• Cloud/HPC deployment
• R&D collaboration

Setup: Contract

• Hybrid, 2-3 days/week in office
• $150K–$250K USD

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