Enterprise AI Field Engineer (FDE) - Hybrid, Milan

Wave Group; Lombardia; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Wave Group is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer in Milan to serve as the technical bridge between our enterprise clients and an AI-native platform. You will tailor AI workflows, configure agents, and ensure production deployments that work across languages and domains.

This hands-on role is ~70% building and deploying with 30% client-facing work, turning field learnings into reusable modules and playbooks for faster, scalable deployments.

Qualifications

• English and Italian proficiency required.
• Direct customer-facing experience (FDE, field engineering, consulting or solutions roles).
• Strong foundation in Python and FastAPI.
• Experience with LLMs and Agentic AI in production.
• Comfortable moving between high-level problem definition and hands-on debugging.
• Startup pace and mentality - high energy, ownership, proactiveness, hunger to innovate and succeed.

Responsibilities

• Be the technical bridge between Wave Group and enterprise customers in your market, understanding workflows and tailoring AI systems.
• Configure and extend AI systems to fit customer needs and ensure production readiness.
• Hands-on role: building and deploying ~70% of time, client-facing ~30%.
• Translate field learnings into reusable modules and playbooks to speed up future deployments.

Skills

English

Italian

Direct customer-facing experience

Python

FastAPI

LLMs & Agentic AI

Debugging

Startup mindset

Tools

React

CI/CD

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Wave Group is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer in Milan to serve as the technical bridge between our enterprise clients and an AI-native platform. You will tailor AI workflows, configure agents, and ensure production deployments that work across languages and domains.

This hands-on role is ~70% building and deploying with 30% client-facing work, turning field learnings into reusable modules and playbooks for faster, scalable deployments.