Ai Engineer

TEKsystems; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision

401(k) Retirement Plan

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

TEKsystems in Palo Alto, CA is seeking a Senior AI Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer to join a newly formed enterprise AI transformation team. You will partner with business, product, and engineering to identify high-impact opportunities and rapidly bring AI-powered solutions into production.

This contract position emphasizes delivering production-grade AI applications, building multi-agent workflows, and applying LLMs with enterprise-grade reliability.

Qualifications

• Experience deploying AI applications to production environments.
• Hands-on experience developing AI agents from scratch.
• Strong understanding of LLMs, agent architectures, prompt engineering, and context engineering.
• Experience with MCP, skills, tools, harnesses, or similar agent frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business stakeholders to understand challenges and identify opportunities for AI-driven transformation.
• Translate ambiguous business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Design, build, and deploy AI-powered applications and agentic workflows.
• Develop production-grade solutions leveraging LLMs, AI agents, MCPs, skills, and modern AI frameworks.
• Rapidly prototype ideas, validate business value, and iterate based on stakeholder feedback.
• Conduct solution demos and communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Collaborate with product, program, and engineering teams to drive adoption and measurable business outcomes.
• Help establish best practices for enterprise AI delivery and implementation.

Skills

Production AI Agent Development

Decompose Ambiguous Problems

Stakeholder Communication

Job description

Description

Senior AI Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer

About the Opportunity

Join a newly formed, executive-sponsored AI Transformation organization focused on delivering enterprise-scale AI solutions across a large global enterprise. This team sits at the intersection of business, product, and engineering, partnering directly with stakeholders to identify high-impact opportunities and rapidly bring AI-powered solutions into production.

This is not a research role and it's not a platform engineering role. You'll work directly with business partners to solve real-world problems using modern AI technologies, helping define how AI is adopted throughout the organization.

What You'll Do

• Partner with business stakeholders to understand challenges and identify opportunities for AI-driven transformation.
• Translate ambiguous business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Design, build, and deploy AI-powered applications and agentic workflows.
• Develop production-grade solutions leveraging LLMs, AI agents, MCPs, skills, and modern AI frameworks.
• Rapidly prototype ideas, validate business value, and iterate based on stakeholder feedback.
• Conduct solution demos and communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Collaborate with product, program, and engineering teams to drive adoption and measurable business outcomes.
• Help establish best practices for enterprise AI delivery and implementation.

Required Qualifications

• AI Engineering Expertise
• Experience building and deploying AI applications into production environments.
• Hands‑on experience developing AI agents from scratch.
• Strong understanding of LLMs, agent architectures, prompt engineering, and context engineering.
• Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol), skills, tools, harnesses, or similar agent frameworks.
• Solution Architecture & Problem Solving
• Proven ability to take ambiguous business problems and decompose them into technical solutions.
• Strong systems design and solution architecture capabilities.
• Ability to evaluate multiple approaches and determine the most effective implementation strategy.
• Product & Stakeholder Management
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders or customers.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to balance technical excellence with business impact.
• Demonstrated product mindset and customer empathy.
• Preferred Qualifications
• Experience building multi-agent systems.
• Experience with RAG architectures and vector databases.
• Background in AI-powered automation or workflow orchestration.
• Experience building coding agents or AI-assisted developer tools.
• Experience delivering customer-facing AI products.
• Cloud experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience in highly regulated or enterprise-scale environments.

What Success Looks Like

You will be successful if you can:

• Turn vague business requests into production-ready AI solutions.
• Rapidly deliver prototypes that demonstrate clear business value.
• Drive adoption of AI tools and applications across teams.Improve efficiency, accuracy, and operational outcomes through AI.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to stakeholders.

Ideal Candidate

We're looking for an engineer who combines deep AI expertise with strong business acumen. You'll thrive in this role if you're equally comfortable discussing enterprise challenges with stakeholders, architecting AI solutions, and building production-quality applications.

Top 3 Must-Have Skills

• Production AI Agent Development (LLMs, Agents, MCP, Skills, Harnesses)
• Ability to Decompose Ambiguous Business Problems Into Technical Solutions
• Strong Product Mindset and Stakeholder Communication Skills

Why Join?

This is a rare opportunity to be part of a foundational AI Transformation team that is shaping how AI is adopted across an entire enterprise. You'll work on highly visible initiatives, solve meaningful business problems, and help define the future of AI-powered operations while collaborating with Senior leaders, product teams, and business stakeholders across the organization.

Skills

Python, Artificial intelligence

Top Skills Details

Python,Artificial intelligence

Additional Skills & Qualifications

Stakeholder Communication:

Working directly with business teams

Explaining technical concepts to non-technical audiences

Experience Level

Expert Level

Note: This posting is not for an existing vacancy.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract position based out of Palo Alto, CA.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $80.00 - $85.00/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: Medical, dental & vision Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital 401(k) Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) Short and long-term disability Health Spending Account (HSA) Transportation benefits Employee Assistance Program Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract position based out of Palo Alto, CA.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Nov 17, 2026.

Workplace Type

This is a hybrid position in Palo Alto,CA.

About TEKsystems

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services

Were a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. Were a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. Were strategic thinkers, hands‑on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. Were building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Massachusetts Lie Detector: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By application, you acknowledge or agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.