Forward Deployed Engineer Enterprise AI

Client of Salt; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 350,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Client of Salt is seeking Forward Deployed Engineers and technical leads to design, build, and deploy production-grade AI applications for enterprise customers in Saudi Arabia. You will directly engage with clients, write code, and shepherd solutions from discovery through production deployment.

You will design AI-powered solutions using GenAI, build PoCs, and integrate with enterprise systems while leading technical direction for the team.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on software engineering experience.
• Experience in AI startup or enterprise AI platform environment.
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure and containerization.
• CI/CD and production monitoring experience.
• Experience delivering solutions for regulated enterprises (finance/government).

Responsibilities

• Engage directly with enterprise customers to understand business challenges and technical requirements.
• Translate ambiguous business problems into practical AI-powered solutions.
• Conduct technical discovery sessions and design solution architectures.
• Collaborate with sales, product and engineering to validate customer use cases.
• Design, develop and integrate AI applications including GenAI solutions and AI agents.
• Build proofs of concept, prototypes and production-grade software.
• Develop APIs, integrations, orchestration workflows for customer solutions.
• Work with large language models, retrieval-augmented generation and AI development frameworks.
• Integrate AI applications with existing enterprise systems and processes.
• Take ownership of deployments from discovery to production.
• Provide technical leadership and review architectures during engagements.

Skills

AI development

Customer-facing

Python

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD

GenAI

LLMs

Software engineering

Tools

APIs

Kubernetes

Containerization

RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)

Job description

Industry Artificial Intelligence Software Engineering amp Enterprise Technology

The Opportunity

We are working with an ambitious enterprise AI technology company that is building advanced customer-facing AI solutions for organisations across Saudi Arabia We are seeking talented Forward Deployed Engineers FDEs and experienced technical leads who can work directly with enterprise customers to design build and deploy production-grade AI applications This is a hands-on engineering position for individuals who enjoy solving complex business problems through technology Unlike traditional presales or solutions consulting roles successful candidates will be responsible for writing code developing solutions and helping customers move from initial discovery through to production deployment

Key Responsibilities

Customer Discovery amp Solution Engineering

Engage directly with enterprise customers to understand business challenges technical requirements and operational workflows

Translate ambiguous business problems into practical AI-powered solutions

Conduct technical discovery sessions and design solution architectures

Collaborate with sales product and engineering stakeholders to develop and validate customer use cases

Hands-On AI Development

Design develop and integrate AI applications including GenAI solutions intelligent agents and enterprise automation workflows

Build proofs of concept prototypes and production-grade software

Develop APIs integrations orchestration workflows and customer-specific technical solutions

Work with large language models retrieval-augmented generation and relevant AI development frameworks

Integrate AI applications with existing enterprise systems databases and business processes

Production Deployment

Take ownership of solutions from discovery and demonstration through to implementation and production

Troubleshoot integration challenges performance issues and production incidents

Support reliability scalability monitoring and technical quality

Work with internal engineering and product teams to turn successful customer deployments into reusable capabilities

Technical Leadership FDE Lead

Provide technical direction to other engineers during customer engagements

Review solution architectures engineering quality and deployment approaches

Support complex customer discussions and technical decision-making

Mentor engineering colleagues and promote consistent delivery standards

Preferred Experience

• Previous Forward Deployed Engineer AI Engineer Solutions Engineer or customer-facing Software Engineer experience
• Experience within an AI startup
• enterprise AI platform company or technology consultancy
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure
• containerisation
• CI CD and production application monitoring
• Experience delivering solutions for regulated enterprises
• financial services or government customers

What Makes Someone Successful

You are not simply someone who can demonstrate AI technology You can meet a customer understand their business problem design an appropriate solution write the code deploy the application and take ownership of making it work You are commercially aware without sacrificing engineering quality comfortable working with customers and motivated by seeing your software create measurable business impact

Why Consider This Opportunity

Work on real enterprise AI implementations rather than isolated research projects Build solutions across diverse industries and customer use cases Work directly with enterprise stakeholders and experienced engineering teams Contribute to an evolving AI product and services ecosystem Take ownership of meaningful technical challenges from concept to production

Confidential applications welcomed

Strong hands-on software engineering experience, with practical programming skills in Python or another relevant backend language. Experience building and deploying enterprise software applications. Familiarity with GenAI, LLM APIs, AI agents, RAG or related applied AI technologies. Experience integrating applications with enterprise platforms, APIs and cloud services. Ability to work directly with business and technical customer stakeholders. Strong problem-solving ability and comfort working with incomplete or evolving requirements. Demonstrated ownership of software development beyond demonstrations and proofs of concept. Ability to operate in fast-moving, customer-facing environments.