Director, AI Delivery & Forward-Deployed Engineering

Higlobe, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Nimble Gravity is seeking a hands-on engineering leader to build and coach a team that turns AI ambitions into production systems for clients. You’ll guide delivery across multiple engagements, run demos and architecture sessions, and ensure high technical quality and clear client communication.

You’ll stay close to code, prototype and review designs, and spot the next phase of work. The role blends leadership with hands-on engineering in a fast-moving consultancy.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software engineering with 5+ years leading engineers.
• Experience in client-facing delivery: consulting, solutions engineering, or forward deployed work.
• Hands-on experience building with LLMs and agentic patterns, including tool use, RAG, workflow orchestration, and evaluation.
• Strong Python or TypeScript skills, plus solid API design, CI/CD, and cloud fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team: Hire, coach, and grow forward deployed engineers. Set a high bar for technical quality, client communication, and ownership.
• Own delivery: Be accountable for scope, quality, timelines, and outcomes across multiple concurrent client engagements.
• Be the technical voice with clients: Run demos, architecture sessions, and delivery workshops that show clients what Claude Code and Claude Cowork can do in their environment.
• Build alongside the team: Stay close to the code. Prototype, review designs, and unblock the team on agentic workflows, tool use, MCP integrations, and evaluation.
• Find the next phase: Spot expansion opportunities in the work and partner with account leadership to shape and scope them.
• Establish repeatable practices: Build reusable patterns, accelerators, and playbooks so every engagement starts further ahead than the last.
• Collaborate across the business: Work with data, cloud, and digital engineering teams to deliver end‑to‑end outcomes.

Skills

Software engineering

Technical leadership

Client-facing delivery

Python/TypeScript

API design

Cloud fundamentals

Tools

Claude Code

Claude Cowork

Anthropic API

Model Context Protocol

Job description

Nimble Gravity is seeking a hands-on engineering leader to build and coach a team that turns AI ambitions into production systems for clients. You’ll guide delivery across multiple engagements, run demos and architecture sessions, and ensure high technical quality and clear client communication.

You’ll stay close to code, prototype and review designs, and spot the next phase of work. The role blends leadership with hands-on engineering in a fast-moving consultancy.