AI Delivery Engineer — Remote (Houston Area)

Elios, Inc.; Houston (TX); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Elios, Inc. is seeking a hands-on engineer with consulting experience to understand client workflows, define problems, and deliver production-ready AI-powered software. You will communicate clearly with clients, learn new domains quickly, and balance quality with speed.

Remote from the Houston area with moderate travel. You will own delivery, explain value and risks, and work with AWS, Azure, or GCP in client environments.

Qualifications

• Certification as Forward Deployed Engineer is preferred and will be assessed.
• Proven consulting experience delivering technical work for external clients.
• Hands-on software engineering with substantial coding without AI assistance.
• Experience shipping and supporting production software.
• Experience building AI-enabled applications and evaluating behavior.
• Hands-on deployment experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Comfort presenting to senior executives and discussing implementation details.

Responsibilities

• Understand client workflows, define the problem, and agree on success criteria.
• Support discovery and sales conversations; explain business value, risks, and tradeoffs to engineers, business stakeholders, and executives.
• Own commitments, communicate progress, and raise delivery risks early.
• Build AI-powered software, agents, and integrations in real client environments.
• Take solutions from proof of concept through production, with testing, security, access controls, observability, and deployment handoff.
• Deploy to the client’s cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Read, review, debug, and maintain the code you ship, including AI-generated code.
• Use agentic coding tools daily while owning architecture, implementation, and quality.

Skills

Forward Deployed Engineer

Consulting experience

Hands-on software engineering

AI-enabled applications

Cloud deployment

AWS/Azure/GCP

Executive communication

Houston residency

Job description

Elios, Inc. is seeking a hands-on engineer with consulting experience to understand client workflows, define problems, and deliver production-ready AI-powered software. You will communicate clearly with clients, learn new domains quickly, and balance quality with speed.

Remote from the Houston area with moderate travel. You will own delivery, explain value and risks, and work with AWS, Azure, or GCP in client environments.