Enterprise AI Deployment Engineer (Forward-Deployed)

Turgon AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Turgon AI is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join our early-stage team in San Francisco. This role sits at the intersection of product, engineering, and customer success, translating real-world needs into reliable AI deployments for enterprise environments.

You will own deployments end-to-end, work across data lakes and warehouses, and feed product improvements back to engineering. Ambiguity, speed, and clear communication are essential.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering or technical experience with customer-facing or implementation work.
• Strong technical foundation including coding and practical understanding of LLM-based systems.
• Excellent communication, able to explain constraints to non-technical stakeholders and write precise bug reports.
• Experience with data lakes, data warehouses (Snowflake, Databricks), ERPs, and systems of record.

Responsibilities

• Own the last-mile execution of customer deployments – configuring, coding, customizing, and troubleshooting our AI solutions.
• Serve as the intelligent backstop when AI requires human judgment or escalation, identify patterns and feed them back to product/engineering.
• Synthesize customer pain points and feature requests into actionable briefs for Product and Engineering, influencing the roadmap.

Skills

Customer-facing

LLM systems knowledge

Data engineering basics

Coding ability

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

RAG pipelines

Vector databases

Job description

Turgon AI is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join our early-stage team in San Francisco. This role sits at the intersection of product, engineering, and customer success, translating real-world needs into reliable AI deployments for enterprise environments.

You will own deployments end-to-end, work across data lakes and warehouses, and feed product improvements back to engineering. Ambiguity, speed, and clear communication are essential.