FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGINEER

Reply, Inc.; Veneto; Remote; EUR 34,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Reply is seeking a Junior Forward Deployed Engineer to work with leading organizations, turning AI opportunities into production deployments. You will learn from senior FDEs while building foundation models, RAG, AI agents, and data pipelines to deliver real business value.

The role starts at the B2 level of CCNL Metalmeccanica Industria, with a gross annual salary range of €34,000 to €55,000, and compensation based on experience and responsibility.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with software development and AI foundations such as generative AI, foundation models, RAG, and AI agents.
• Interest in working with customers and translating needs into AI solutions.
• Ability to understand business challenges and break them into technical requirements.
• Motivation to learn, collaborate cross-functionally, and take ownership.

Responsibilities

• Turn AI opportunities into production-ready solutions across models, RAG, and pipelines.
• Translate business challenges into prototypes and incremental features with rapid experimentation.
• Collaborate with customers and engineering teams to deploy and adopt AI solutions.
• Define and track technical and business metrics to measure impact and adoption.
• Learn from senior engineers and contribute to reusable assets and playbooks.

Skills

AI foundations

Customer-facing problem solving

Technical curiosity

Growth mindset

Education

Degree in CS/CE or related field

Job description

BARI, BOLOGNA, FIRENZE, MILANO, PADOVA, ROMA, TORINO, TRIESTE, SILEA (TV), SAN MARTINO BUON ALBERGO

A Junior Forward Deployed Engineer works directly with leading organizations to identify, prototype, and deliver AI use cases that create measurable business value. At Reply, your mission is to support customer initiatives across the AI journey, from experimentation to implementation and adoption, working alongside experienced FDEs while progressively developing your technical expertise, customer collaboration skills, and delivery capabilities.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Turn AI into operational value. Contribute to the journey from AI opportunity identification to production adoption by developing solutions based on foundation models, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, AI agents, intelligent workflows, and data pipelines.
• Apply AI innovation to real-world needs. Help translate business challenges and emerging opportunities into prototypes and production‑ready features. Participate in rapid experimentation, implementation tasks, and iterative delivery, using real‑world customer feedback to refine and improve solutions.
• Work side by side with customers. Collaborate with business users and engineering teams to understand their challenges, translate needs into actionable technical requirements, and contribute to implementation, deployment, and adoption.
• Connect engineering work to business impact. Contribute to defining and tracking technical and business success metrics, developing an understanding of how engineering decisions influence adoption, operational performance, productivity, risk reduction, and business outcomes.
• Grow within the Forward Deployed Engineering practice. Collaborate with and learn from more senior engineers, share learnings from engagements, and contribute to documentation, playbooks, and reusable assets that support future projects.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

• Academic background. A degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Software engineering and AI foundations. Familiarity with software development and technologies such as generative AI, foundation models, large language models, RAG, and AI agents, gained through academic, personal, or professional projects.
• Customer-facing problem solving. Interest in working directly with customers and users, understanding their challenges, breaking down complex problems, and translating business needs into practical AI solutions.
• Technical curiosity and business orientation. Motivation to deepen your hands‑on AI expertise while understanding how technical choices affect adoption, operational performance, and business value.
• Growth mindset and collaboration. A proactive approach to learning, openness to feedback, and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams while progressively taking greater ownership.

Relevant AI certifications, experience in AI engineering, evaluation, observability, governance, safety, and the development of scalable enterprise AI solutions will be considered a strong asset.

Your compensation package will be defined based on your professional experience, technical expertise, and level of responsibility.

The position is expected to start from the B2 level of the “CCNL Metalmeccanica Industria”, with a gross annual salary ranging from €34,000 to €55,000.

WHO WE ARE

Reply is a network of highly specialized companies which support leading industrial groups in defining and developing business models using new technology and communication paradigms, such as Big Data, Cloud Computing, Digital Communication, Internet of Things, Mobile and Social Networking. Reply focuses on Consultancy, System Integration and Application Management, covering three areas of competence: Processes, Applications and Technologies.

Reply is committed to embracing diversity and creating an inclusive work environment by valuing the uniqueness of people regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality or disabilities as protected by Italian Law (L.68/99).

Reply is committed to ensuring that our candidate selection methods are fair and just. To help you during the recruitment process, please let us know of any Reasonable Adjustments you may need.

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