AI Deployment Engineer | Python, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes

Enigma; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance

401(k) / retirement contributions

Generous leave

Hybrid work

Travel opportunities

Collaborative environment

Job summary

Enigma is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer in San Francisco to bridge cutting-edge AI models with customer workflows, deploying and integrating AI tech within scientific environments. This highly technical, customer-facing role combines deep infrastructure expertise with performance tuning, API integration, and model serving at scale for life sciences.

You will partner with pharmaceutical and biotech teams to understand their environments, deliver production-ready solutions, and capture

Qualifications

• Strong academic background in Computer Science, ML, AI, or a quantitative discipline (BSc/MSc/PhD).
• Experience building systems that interact with large AI models via APIs.
• Hands-on experience designing and maintaining infrastructure for large-scale model serving.
• Experience deploying AI solutions for external customers and translating complex concepts for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure, especially AWS; exposure to Azure or Google Cloud.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native architectures.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical and business teams.
• Proactive, adaptable, and able to manage multiple customer engagements.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end deployment of AI models into customer environments.
• Design and implement production-ready API integrations, data pipelines, and model-serving infrastructure.
• Work closely with customer engineering and scientific teams to gather requirements, troubleshoot issues, and deliver technical solutions.
• Ensure deployments meet enterprise standards for security, scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Serve as the primary technical contact for assigned customers and build trusted relationships.
• Develop technical documentation, implementation guides, and best-practice resources.

Skills

Python

APIs

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Education

BSc/MSc/PhD in CS/ML/AI

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Enigma is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer in San Francisco to bridge cutting-edge AI models with customer workflows, deploying and integrating AI tech within scientific environments. This highly technical, customer-facing role combines deep infrastructure expertise with performance tuning, API integration, and model serving at scale for life sciences.

You will partner with pharmaceutical and biotech teams to understand their environments, deliver production-ready solutions, and capture