Business-Facing AI Engineer for Trading & Energy Ops

Reach Velocity - Emerging Technology ?? ??; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Reach Velocity - Emerging Technology is seeking a hands-on Forward Deployed AI Engineer to join our AI team at the intersection of AI, commercial operations, and energy/commodities trading. You will work directly with traders and commercial users to identify high-value AI opportunities and deploy practical AI solutions.

The role requires ownership from business problem through production, collaborating with foundational AI and platform engineering teams to design, build, and deploy agentic AI

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in AI Engineering, Software Engineering, ML, Data Science, or related technical field.
• Strong Python development skills and solid software engineering fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience with Generative AI, LLMs, RAG, prompt engineering, tool/function calling, and agentic workflows.
• Experience with frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, or equivalent.
• Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work with both technical and commercial stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with trading and commercial teams to understand workflows and identify AI opportunities.
• Design and deploy LLM/agentic AI solutions from prototype through production.
• Build and integrate RAG, tool calling, MCP servers, data connectors, and domain-specific AI capabilities.
• Apply AI techniques including LLMs, NLP, RAG, time-series forecasting, and optimization to pricing, supply/demand, trade-flow, and operational problems.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions and communicate requirements back to engineering teams.
• Present AI capabilities and limitations to traders and senior stakeholders and drive adoption.

Skills

AI Engineering experience

Python development

LLMs & agentic workflows

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

AWS

Job description

Reach Velocity - Emerging Technology is seeking a hands-on Forward Deployed AI Engineer to join our AI team at the intersection of AI, commercial operations, and energy/commodities trading. You will work directly with traders and commercial users to identify high-value AI opportunities and deploy practical AI solutions.

The role requires ownership from business problem through production, collaborating with foundational AI and platform engineering teams to design, build, and deploy agentic AI