AI Deployment Engineer — Enterprise Solutions (Remote)

Pathward, National Association; United States; Hybrid; USD 86,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) retirement benefits

Life insurance

Disability benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

Pathward, National Association seeks an AI Forward Deployed Engineer to ensure AI investments deliver real, operational impact. The role owns deployment readiness, data integrity, and solution delivery, working with AI Engineers, Data Scientists, and Architecture teams to deploy, adopt, and scale AI solutions securely across the enterprise.

Success means deployment-ready AI solutions that are adopted by stakeholders, enabling measurable business outcomes and scalable deployment across the

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in CS/Engineering/Info Systems.
• 5+ years in customer-facing or deployment-oriented technical roles.
• Strong understanding of data-driven systems and AI/ML platforms.
• Ability to translate ambiguous business needs into technical requirements.
• Familiarity with AI/ML concepts (MLOps, model lifecycle, LLM-based solutions).
• Strong communication across technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical bridge between stakeholders and AI teams, translating business needs into clear requirements.
• Partner with business, product, and tech teams to identify AI opportunities and align with outcomes.
• Assess infrastructure, security, access controls, and integrations for production readiness.
• Identify and mitigate risks in deployment lifecycle.
• Evaluate data availability, quality, lineage, and governance with data/business teams.
• Assess business processes for readiness to support AI-enabled automation.
• Configure, integrate, and deploy AI solutions and supporting services.
• Translate prototypes into scalable production-grade solutions and troubleshoot issues.
• Enable adoption through documentation, demonstrations, and knowledge transfer.
• Capture learnings to improve repeatable patterns and playbooks.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Translate business needs to technical

AI/ML concepts familiarity

Data-driven systems

Ability to translate needs into data

Cloud platforms familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Pathward, National Association seeks an AI Forward Deployed Engineer to ensure AI investments deliver real, operational impact. The role owns deployment readiness, data integrity, and solution delivery, working with AI Engineers, Data Scientists, and Architecture teams to deploy, adopt, and scale AI solutions securely across the enterprise.

Success means deployment-ready AI solutions that are adopted by stakeholders, enabling measurable business outcomes and scalable deployment across the