Client-Facing GenAI & Data Engineering Engineer

First Soft Solutions LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

First Soft Solutions LLC is seeking a hands-on Forward Deployed Engineer in the Washington, DC metro area. The role involves working with customers to understand needs, designing solutions, and deploying them with a focus on Python, data pipelines, and GenAI applications.

The ideal candidate will have deep experience in software and data engineering, REST API integration, and building AI-powered workflows, including RAG and AI agents, in production environments.

Qualifications

• 8–14 years of overall technology experience.
• Hands-on Python development.
• Strong software engineering experience.
• Strong data engineering experience including ETL/ELT, data pipelines, data modeling, and schema mapping.
• Experience developing and integrating REST APIs.
• Hands-on experience with Generative AI and LLM applications.
• Experience with RAG, AI agents, agentic workflows, tool calling, and AI workflow automation.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Strong customer-facing and communication skills.
• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Must be able to work in the Washington, DC metro area 2–3 days per week.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with customers to understand business and technical requirements.
• Turn unclear or complex requirements into working technical solutions.
• Build applications using Python and/or TypeScript.
• Design and integrate REST APIs and backend services.
• Build ETL/ELT pipelines and data-processing workflows.
• Work with structured and unstructured enterprise data.
• Develop applications using LLMs and Generative AI.
• Build RAG solutions, AI agents, tool-calling workflows, and AI automation.
• Integrate AI applications with databases, APIs, cloud platforms, and enterprise systems.
• Test, deploy, monitor, and support solutions in production.
• Identify technical risks, integration issues, and data-quality problems.
• Communicate effectively with customers and senior stakeholders.

Skills

Python

Software engineering

Data engineering

ETL/ELT

Data pipelines

Data modeling

Schema mapping

REST APIs

Generative AI

LLM applications

RAG

AI Agents

Tool calling

AI workflow automation

Debugging

Customer-facing

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Spark

Kafka

Airflow

dbt

Job description

First Soft Solutions LLC is seeking a hands-on Forward Deployed Engineer in the Washington, DC metro area. The role involves working with customers to understand needs, designing solutions, and deploying them with a focus on Python, data pipelines, and GenAI applications.

The ideal candidate will have deep experience in software and data engineering, REST API integration, and building AI-powered workflows, including RAG and AI agents, in production environments.