Client-Facing AI Deployment Engineer

Magnitude Consulting; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Magnitude Consulting is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer with 2 to 5 years of experience to own the technical side of enterprise deployments and partner directly with large-scale clients.

The role blends engineering with customer impact, requiring on-site collaboration with client teams, rapid MVP delivery, and direct contribution to roadmap decisions. Expect travel and hands-on coding to drive real business outcomes.

Qualifications

• 2 to 5 years of full-stack software engineering experience, preferably within a high-growth B2B environment.
• Full-stack production coding ability, demonstrating you can scope and ship deployable code independently.
• A strong foundation in system architecture, APIs, and webhooks.
• Active daily utilization of AI tools like Claude or Cursor to enhance your engineering workflow.
• Demonstrated product impact that is tied to real business outcomes such as revenue generation or time savings.
• Genuine enthusiasm for customer-facing work and a proven track record of delivering technical solutions directly to external clients.
• High agency and a comfort level with operating in ambiguity to figure things out without a set playbook.
• Willingness to travel on-site to customer locations and embed within their operational environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery, design proofs-of-concept, and run tailored demos tied directly to prospect workflows and pain points.
• Build minimum viable products (MVPs) from a client problem to a working demo in a matter of days.
• Act as the bridge between external customers and internal product/engineering teams, surfacing edge cases and shaping the roadmap.
• Travel on-site to customer locations to embed directly with their operations teams, scope integrations, and write code to unblock initiatives.
• Scope and execute pilot programs with clear success metrics and build return‑on‑investment (ROI) models.
• Support end-to-end onboarding processes, including data mapping, workflow configuration, and API/webhook integrations.
• Aggressively leverage AI tools, agents, and automation to multiply your engineering output.
• Feed project learnings back into the core platform to help productize one-off solutions for broader enterprise use.

Skills

Full-stack software engineering

High-growth B2B experience

Customer-facing delivery

Ambiguity tolerance

Tools

Claude

Cursor

AI/LLM tooling

APIs

Webhooks

Job description

Magnitude Consulting is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer with 2 to 5 years of experience to own the technical side of enterprise deployments and partner directly with large-scale clients.

The role blends engineering with customer impact, requiring on-site collaboration with client teams, rapid MVP delivery, and direct contribution to roadmap decisions. Expect travel and hands-on coding to drive real business outcomes.