AI-Powered Forward Deploy Engineer

Mad Devs; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Remote-first culture

Long-term projects

Salary in dollars

Professional communities

Onsite business trips

Training budget

Paid conferences

Job summary

Mad Devs in the United States seeks a Forward Deploy Engineer to turn business problems into AI-powered software, owning the full lifecycle from discovery to deployment and continuous improvement. You will work with customers and internal teams to translate needs into practical, measurable AI-driven solutions using agents as the primary tool.

This remote-first role offers flexible hours, long-term projects, travel for onsite engagements, and a strong emphasis on autonomy, ownership, and hands-on

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals across architecture, APIs, databases, and integrations.
• Hands-on experience with AI coding agents and agentic development workflows.
• Ability to critique AI outputs and delegate tasks to agents.
• Experience shipping production software with testing, deployment, and monitoring.
• Strong product thinking to prioritize value and avoid building unnecessary features.
• Ownership and initiative; can tackle ambiguous problems independently.
• Excellent communication; comfortable working directly with customers and users.

Responsibilities

• Identify business problems and translate them into practical AI-powered solutions.
• Explore codebases, data, APIs, and infrastructure to understand customer environments.
• Define scope, prioritize work, and validate assumptions with users and stakeholders.
• Use AI agents to accelerate development, testing, debugging, and iteration.
• Build, test, and deploy solutions quickly while maintaining quality.
• Evaluate AI output, manage technical risks, ensure production reliability.
• Monitor results, gather feedback, and continually improve outcomes.

Skills

Software engineering

AI agents

Agentic development

Deployment

Product thinking

Ownership

Communication

Job description

Mad Devs in the United States seeks a Forward Deploy Engineer to turn business problems into AI-powered software, owning the full lifecycle from discovery to deployment and continuous improvement. You will work with customers and internal teams to translate needs into practical, measurable AI-driven solutions using agents as the primary tool.

This remote-first role offers flexible hours, long-term projects, travel for onsite engagements, and a strong emphasis on autonomy, ownership, and hands-on