AI Business Engineer

bostoncyberx; Boston, Northern (MA, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

bostoncyberx is seeking an AI Business Engineer in Boston with hybrid or US-wide remote options. The role blends consulting, opportunity identification, and hands-on AI system building.

You’ll map client use cases to measurable outcomes, then prototype workflows that deliver them, speaking both P&L and Python in client meetings. The position emphasizes executive-level discovery, rapid prototyping, and end-to-end ownership of outcomes, with accountability for the numbers and the impact across

Qualifications

• 5+ years across consulting, solutions engineering, product, or operations with client exposure.
• Hands-on fluency with LLM platforms, agent frameworks, and at least one general-purpose language.
• The ability to run a working session with CxO and business leaders and a build session with an engineer in the same day.
• Writing that executives actually read: crisp, quantified, jargon-free.
• Comfort with ambiguity, fixed scopes, and being personally accountable for a number.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery with client executives: find use cases that pay, frame as outcomes with owners and dates.
• Design and build agentic workflows, copilots, and automation on modern AI platforms.
• Run rapid pilots through our FORGE framework and carry them to production with governance built in.
• Quantify results against the client's baseline and present them to boards in plain English.
• Feed what you learn back into the firm's playbooks, accelerators, and the AI Assessment.

Skills

LLM platforms

Agent frameworks

Python

Executive comms

Client discovery

Tools

FORGE framework

Job description

Careers · Full-time · Boston (hybrid) or remote US

AI Business Engineer

Turn business problems into working AI systems, and working AI systems into measured outcomes. ABE is bostoncyberx's name for the Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) role.

About the role

The AI Business Engineer is the role this firm is built around: part consultant, part opportunity identifier, part builder. You sit with a client's leadership team in the morning, map a use case to a measurable outcome, and by the afternoon you are prototyping the agentic workflow that delivers it. You speak P&L and Python in the same meeting.

What this title means

One of the fastest growing roles in the AI industry is the Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), a term used by Palantir, Anthropic, OpenAI and others. So what is the difference between an FDE and a bcx AI Business Engineer (ABE)?

The title should name the outcome you own, not where you sit. FDE describes a staffing pattern: an engineer sent into the account. This role owns a number. You find the use case that pays, build the system, and show the result to the board.

The buyer is the executive, not the engineering org. You run discovery with a CFO in the morning and a build session in the afternoon. FDE reads as an on-site engineer. Business Engineer says the commercial conversation is the job, not a side skill.

bcx is not embedding a product team in a customer. Palantir, OpenAI, and Anthropic use FDE to land their own platform. We sit in the client's P&L, build on what they already have, and stay accountable for the outcome. The name should say that.

What you will do

Lead discovery with client executives: find the use cases that pay, frame them as outcomes with owners and dates

Design and build agentic workflows, copilots, and automation on modern AI platforms

Run rapid pilots through our FORGE framework and carry them to production with governance built in

Quantify results against the client's baseline and present them to boards in plain English

Feed what you learn back into the firm's playbooks, accelerators, and the AI Assessment

What you bring

5+ years across consulting, solutions engineering, product, or operations roles with real client exposure

Hands-on fluency with LLM platforms, agent frameworks, and at least one general-purpose language

The ability to run a working session with CxO and business leaders and a build session with an engineer in the same day

Writing that executives actually read: crisp, quantified, jargon-free

Comfort with ambiguity, fixed scopes, and being personally accountable for a number

Nice to have

Security or compliance background (SOC 2, HIPAA, CMMC environments)

Industry depth in any sector we serve

Prior startup or founding experience