Client-Facing AI Engineer — Production LLMs & GenAI

scalr; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

scalr is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to sit at the intersection of engineering and customer delivery, building production AI systems directly with enterprise clients. You will spend your time working closely with customers, turning ambiguous real-world problems into working software that actually gets used.

You will own the evaluation and reliability side as well, ensuring what you ship keeps performing in production.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of industry experience.
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity and working directly with customers.
• Strong Python and/or TypeScript skills in production environments.
• Track record of deploying data-heavy or AI-enabled applications.
• Able to communicate clearly across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Open to travel, roughly 20%.
• Wants the pace and ownership of a startup environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy production AI systems directly with enterprise clients.
• Develop and deploy LLM-powered and agentic systems and retrieval-augmented apps.
• Own evaluation and reliability to ensure ships perform in production.
• Collaborate with customers to turn ambiguous problems into working software.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Communication

AI deployment

Customer-facing

Education

CS degree

Job description

scalr is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to sit at the intersection of engineering and customer delivery, building production AI systems directly with enterprise clients. You will spend your time working closely with customers, turning ambiguous real-world problems into working software that actually gets used.

You will own the evaluation and reliability side as well, ensuring what you ship keeps performing in production.