100% Remote // AI Forward Deployment Engineer (AI, Java, Python))

Talent Groups; United States; On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Talent Groups is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to partner with business teams, delivering AI-led automation and production-ready solutions. The role blends hands-on engineering, solution architecture, product thinking, consulting, and customer-facing execution in a fast-paced environment.

You will embed with business units, own AI outcomes, prototype rapidly, and scale integrations across enterprise platforms. Strong cloud, API, and data skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 4-8 years in AI-led engineering, implementation, product, consulting, or customer-facing technology roles.
• AI proficiency mandatory; backgrounds in software engineering, data science, UX, or related domains with hands-on experience.
• Daily AI tool usage, code contributions, and documented token usage.
• Strong analytical thinking and ability to derive AI solutions from data to solve business problems.
• Strong understanding of APIs, databases, cloud services, authentication, integrations, and deployment.
• Experience in Data and analytics platforms; comfortable with structured and unstructured data.
• Experience with GenAI, LLMs, RAG, agents, AI workflow automation, prompt engineering, model integration and training.
• Cloud experience across AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Good communication, adaptability, and problem-solving in ambiguous environments.

Responsibilities

• Embed with business and engineering teams to own AI outcomes within a defined business domain.
• Build and deliver AI solutions hands-on; this is an execution role, not just advisory.
• Translate AI potential into production value through code-first delivery and active repository contributions.
• Understand business processes, pain points, data flows, and success metrics to design MVPs and production-ready solutions.
• Own the journey from discovery to working solution, rapidly proving value through pilots and POCs.
• Integrate with enterprise platforms, data systems, workflows, and third-party APIs; document architectures and playbooks.
• Feed field learnings into product roadmap and accelerators.

Skills

AI/GenAI

API integration

Cloud platforms

Data & analytics

Production deployment

Prompt engineering

LLMs

Communication

Job description

Contract

Job Description:

Role Overview

We are looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) who partners directly with business teams to identify high-value problems and deliver AI-led automation and innovation under centralized council oversight.

An FDE is an empowered AI builder embedded within business units to understand real world context, build practical solutions, and drive measurable AI driven outcomes.

The role blends hands-on engineering, solution architecture, product thinking, consulting, and customer-facing execution.

Key Responsibilities

1. Business Embedding and Outcome Ownership

• Embed with business and engineering teams to own AI outcomes within a defined business domain.
• Build and deliver AI solutions hands-on; this is an execution role, not an advisory role.
• Convert AI potential into production value through code-first delivery and active repository contributions.

2. Problem Discovery and Solution Design

• Understand business processes, pain points, systems, data flows, and success metrics.
• Translate problems into MVPs, integrations, automations, and production-ready solutions with an ownership mindset
• Build across APIs, databases, cloud platforms, workflow tools, enterprise systems, and AI/GenAI technologies.

3. Rapid Prototyping and Value Validation

• Own the journey from discovery to working solution, rapidly proving business value through pilots and POCs

4. Integration, Adoption, and Scale

• Integrate with enterprise platforms, data systems, workflows, collaboration tools, and third-party APIs.
• Document architectures, implementation playbooks, reusable components, and customer-specific solution guides.
• Feed field learnings into product roadmap, accelerators, and go-to-market propositions.

Required Skills and Experience

• 4-8 years of experience in AI led engineering, implementation, product, consulting, or customer-facing technology roles.
• AI proficiency is mandatory; candidates may come from software engineering, data science, UX, or related domains with proven hands on experience.
• Daily AI tool usage, demonstrable code contributions, and documented token usage.
• Strong analytical thinking and expertise in effectively utilizing data to derive AI solutions to solve business problems.
• Strong understanding of APIs, databases, cloud services, authentication, integrations, and deployment.
• Experience in Data and analytics platforms.
• Comfortable with structured and unstructured data.
• Experience with GenAI, LLMs, RAG, agents, AI workflow automation, prompt engineering, model integration and model training.
• Cloud experience across AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Good communication, adaptability, and problem-solving in ambiguous environments.

Good to Have

• Knowledge of ML algorithms, model building, deployment, deep learning, and NLP.
• Experience integrating with Salesforce, Jira, Rally, Oracle, ServiceNow, Microsoft Dynamics or similar platforms.
• Familiarity with data engineering, ETL/ELT pipelines, BI dashboards, analytics, and reporting workflows.
• Healthcare exposure, especially contact centers, claims automation, finance, or technology services.