Client-Facing AI Engineer — Remote with Travel

NielsenIQ; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive healthcare

401(k) matching

Flexible working environment

Paid holidays

Education support

Job summary

NIQ is seeking Forward Deployed AI Engineers to partner with clients, design and deploy AI-powered solutions, and drive adoption in production environments. This remote role includes up to 30% travel and opportunities to collaborate directly with client stakeholders across multiple levels.

You will work at the intersection of AI, software engineering, and customer engagement, guiding projects from discovery to production while shaping NIQ's AI capabilities and product direction.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in software engineering, AI engineering, solutions engineering, deployment engineering, technical consulting, or a related field.
• Proven ability to build and deliver production systems from requirements gathering through implementation and adoption.
• Strong software engineering skills with experience building production systems in Python, Java, Go, TypeScript, or similar languages, along with APIs, SQL, cloud platforms, data pipelines, and modern architectures.
• Experience building or deploying AI, machine learning, generative AI, or LLM-based applications in production environments.
• Ability to translate ambiguous problems into practical, scalable technical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with clients to understand complex business challenges and identify opportunities where AI can create measurable impact.
• Design, build, and deploy production-grade applications using AI, machine learning, cloud technologies, APIs, and modern software engineering practices.
• Develop solutions utilizing large language models (LLMs), retrieval systems, agents, workflow automation, and advanced analytics.
• Lead projects through the full lifecycle, from discovery and prototyping to deployment, adoption, and ongoing optimization.
• Collaborate with client teams, product leaders, engineers, and data scientists to deliver scalable and impactful solutions.
• Translate ambiguous problems into actionable plans and deliver results in fast-moving environments.
• Measure solution performance, reliability, and user adoption, continuously improving the systems you build.
• Contribute to the evolution of NIQ's AI capabilities by sharing learnings, creating reusable frameworks, and influencing future product direction.
• Travel to client locations as needed to support discovery, implementation, and strategic collaboration.

Skills

Software engineering

AI engineering

Solutions engineering

Deployment engineering

Technical consulting

Customer engagement

Traveling for client work

Tools

Python

Java

Go

TypeScript

APIs

SQL

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Job description

NIQ is seeking Forward Deployed AI Engineers to partner with clients, design and deploy AI-powered solutions, and drive adoption in production environments. This remote role includes up to 30% travel and opportunities to collaborate directly with client stakeholders across multiple levels.

You will work at the intersection of AI, software engineering, and customer engagement, guiding projects from discovery to production while shaping NIQ's AI capabilities and product direction.