Client-Embedded AI Engineer: Production LLM Deployments

Seekr; Menlo Park (CA); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity Ownership

Unlimited PTO & holidays

Hybrid work + remote options

Office: Reston, VA & Austin, TX

401(k) with company match

Comprehensive health & wellness

Parental leave

Job summary

Seekr is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers to embed with client teams and deploy AI systems in production. You will build data pipelines for LLMs, fine-tune models, and deploy agentic workflows across cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem environments.

You will work closely with client engineers to optimize inference, ensure safety, and scale AI adoption across industries. Preferred candidates bring hands-on ML experience, strong software engineering fundamentals, and the ability to translate business

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional experience in software engineering, data engineering, or applied ML.
• Hands-on expertise with AI/ML and LLM frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, Hugging Face, LangChain, vLLM).
• Experience designing and deploying production-grade systems with security and performance.
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Python, Java, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript).
• Experience with containerization/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Ability to work with client stakeholders to translate needs into deployed solutions.
• Willingness to travel 25-75%.

Responsibilities

• Operationalize AI PoCs into production-grade systems.
• Design and deploy data pipelines for LLM training and RAG applications.
• Fine-tune, evaluate, and deploy LLMs and agentic workflows.
• Integrate SeekrFlow agents with client environments across cloud/on-prem deployments.
• Collaborate with client teams to debug, optimize inference, and monitor safety guardrails.
• Codify best practices into reusable playbooks and deployment accelerators.

Skills

Production systems design

AI/ML & LLM frameworks

Model fine-tuning

Client stakeholder communication

Travel readiness

Programming languages (Python/Java/C/C

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/Math/Physics/Data Science

Tools

PyTorch

Hugging Face

LangChain

vLLM

Docker

Kubernetes

React

GitHub/GitLab

Terraform/CloudFormation

Neo4j/GRAPH DBs

SPARQL/Cypher

AWS/Azure/GCP

Job description

Seekr is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers to embed with client teams and deploy AI systems in production. You will build data pipelines for LLMs, fine-tune models, and deploy agentic workflows across cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem environments.

You will work closely with client engineers to optimize inference, ensure safety, and scale AI adoption across industries. Preferred candidates bring hands-on ML experience, strong software engineering fundamentals, and the ability to translate business