Client-Facing AI Engineer: Fast-Deploy AI Solutions

Latitude; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working environment

Comprehensive health insurance

Industry-leading parental leave

Life insurance

Education support and more

Job summary

NIQ is seeking an Forward Deployed AI Engineer to act as a startup CTO inside a Fortune 500 client, delivering fast, production-ready AI solutions and measuring success by client outcomes.

You will build data pipelines that fuse NIQ data with client sales, inventory, and margins, and design AI decision applications with guardrails and auditability. This role emphasizes speed, client impact, and direct client interaction.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals: production Python and SQL, data pipelines, APIs.
• Hands-on with modern AI tooling: LLM APIs, agent frameworks, retrieval systems.
• Full-stack enough to ship a usable application end-to-end on your own.
• Bias to speed and client impact over perfect architecture.
• Comfortable client-facing: you demo your own work and defend your own trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Build data pipelines joining NIQ's data with the client's sales, inventory, and margins.
• Design and ship AI decision applications: recommendation workflows, LLM-agent-driven analysis, auditability.
• Navigate broken enterprise data environments and ship anyway.
• Work in a 2-3 person deployment team with a data scientist and an AI Deployment Architect, dedicated to one client
• Surface reusable patterns from each deployment back into NIQ's product platform

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

APIs

Tools

LLM APIs

Agent frameworks

Retrieval systems

Job description

NIQ is seeking an Forward Deployed AI Engineer to act as a startup CTO inside a Fortune 500 client, delivering fast, production-ready AI solutions and measuring success by client outcomes.

You will build data pipelines that fuse NIQ data with client sales, inventory, and margins, and design AI decision applications with guardrails and auditability. This role emphasizes speed, client impact, and direct client interaction.