AI-Driven Forward Deployed Engineer — Asset Management

NextBigWhat; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

IFS Copperleaf seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to sit across Sales, Product, R&D, and Implementation teams. You will stand up our product on the customer’s data, quickly proving value inside the deal, and prototype near-production solutions when gaps exist.

You own the technical outcomes from discovery through production adoption, turning customer requirements into measurable value and shaping our roadmap with product and sales teams.

Qualifications

• Customer-facing and commercial ability to run discovery and connect technology to business outcomes.
• Abstraction: generalize solutions into reusable accelerators for future engagements.
• AI and agentic engineering: develop LLM-based apps, RAG, prompts, and orchestration.
• Familiarity with enterprise integrations in regulated utility markets (ESRI ArcGIS/Smallworld, IBM Maximo, SAP/Oracle ERP/PPM).
• Willingness to travel to customer sites up to ~50%.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Solutions Consultants and Account Executives on strategic accounts and net new opportunities.
• Own discovery, scoping, architecture, implementation, evaluation, and adoption for customer solutions; deploy and prove value.
• Prototype aggressively and productionize deliberately for customer outcomes.
• Engineer for security, reliability, observability, maintainability, and integration with customer architecture.
• Build, deploy, and evaluate solutions with customer data, measuring adoption and time-to-value.

Skills

Customer-facing

Abstraction

AI/agentic engineering

Enterprise integrations

Domain knowledge (asset-intensive)

Travel readiness

Tools

Angular

Python

SQL

REST APIs

Data pipelines

Job description

IFS Copperleaf seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to sit across Sales, Product, R&D, and Implementation teams. You will stand up our product on the customer’s data, quickly proving value inside the deal, and prototype near-production solutions when gaps exist.

You own the technical outcomes from discovery through production adoption, turning customer requirements into measurable value and shaping our roadmap with product and sales teams.