Forward Deployed AI Consultant

NEXERA; Northern (KY); Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Occasional travel

Job summary

Nexera is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Consultant to embed with client teams, design AI-powered solutions, and deliver end-to-end production deployments. This remote-first role involves direct client engagement, translating business problems into working software with measurable impact.

You will own the full solution lifecycle, stay current on agentic AI tools, and drive organizational change management to ensure adoption. Occasional travel may be required.

Qualifications

• Five-plus years of experience building production business solutions.
• Experience with AI agents and AI-powered development tools in production workflows.
• Consulting or client-facing experience preferred: manage stakeholders and deliver under pressure in someone else's environment.
• Strong communication and customer management skills: explain architecture to VPs and pair-program with juniors.

Responsibilities

• Discover and define high-value business problems with customers.
• Design and build AI-powered solutions end-to-end including architecture and production deployment.
• Deploy and secure deployment pipelines and ensure enterprise-grade reliability and security.
• Evaluate and iterate using real-world performance and customer feedback.
• Drive adoption: train end users, build documentation, and ensure solutions are embraced.
• Innovate by defining agentic workflows and tools to improve product design and the SDLC.

Skills

Client-facing

Agentic engineering

Production software

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Cloud platforms

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

CDK

OpenAI API

Gemini APIs

Job description

The Forward Deployed AI Consultant is a client-embedded, full-lifecycle business and technical consulting role. The role is customer-facing, embedded with our customers virtually (in some cases physically) to better understand their business and needs to identify how AI enabled applications and experiences can improve their business and deliver tangible ROI. FDaiC's are technical in nature and are expected to stay current on latest agentic engineering techniques and tools and will deliver production solutions end-to-end, and are driven by genuine curiosity about the space. Remote + partial travel.

About Nexera

Nexera is an AI-native consulting firm that builds intelligent, custom solutions for organizations navigating the age of AI. We don't just talk about AI. We build with it, ship with it, and embed it into everything we deliver. Our engineers use the latest agentic development tools to move fast, solve hard problems, and create real business value for our customers. We are a fast-paced startup that is 100% focused on customer success. We invest in our people with cutting-edge tooling, continuous learning, and a culture that rewards pushing limits and driving innovation. If you want to work at the frontier of how software gets built and deployed, not just read about it, Nexera is the place.

Description

As a Forward Deployed AI Consultant, you are the technical face of Nexera with our customers. You will embed directly with client teams to understand their business challenges, design AI-powered solutions, and build and ship those solutions end-to-end, from architecture through production deployment and adoption. This is not a back-office engineering role. You will be in the room with stakeholders, translating real-world problems into working software that delivers real, measurable business impact.

You will own the full solution lifecycle: specifications, architecture, source code, test plans, infrastructure automation, deployment pipelines, security posture, and post-launch adoption. You will also play a key role in helping customers understand how AI changes their workflows and driving the organizational change management that makes adoption stick.

We are looking for bright, curious consultants/engineers who have a genuine passion for this space. People who stay up on the latest models and tools not because they have to, but because they can't help it. You want to understand how things work, you care deeply about solving real problems for real people, and you're energized by the pace of change in AI rather than overwhelmed by it. If you want to help shape the future of how software and intelligent solutions get built and delivered, keep reading.

What You'll Do

• Discover and Define: Work directly with customers to identify high-value business problems, assess feasibility, and scope AI-powered solutions that drive real outcomes.
• Design and Build: Own full solution design and implementation including specifications, architecture, production source code, test plans, and infrastructure-as-code, using modern AI-assisted development workflows.
• Deploy and Secure: Stand up deployment pipelines, implement DevSecOps practices, and ensure solutions meet enterprise-grade reliability and security standards.
• Evaluate and Iterate: Design agent evaluation frameworks, monitor production AI systems, and iterate based on real-world performance and customer feedback.
• Drive Adoption: Lead change management with customer organizations. Train end users, build documentation, and ensure solutions are embraced, not just delivered.
• Innovate How We Work: Experiment with and define agentic workflows and tools that improve product design, the SDLC, and the overall quality of how Nexera delivers. Your ideas become part of our operating model.

Tools and Technologies (Preferred)

We move fast and use the best tools available. You must have experience with one or more of the following:

• Cloud infrastructure: Azure, Google Cloud, and/or AWS, including infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, Bicep, CDK)
• AI platforms: Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, and/or Google Gemini APIs and SDKs for building production AI features
• AI-enabled IDEs: Visual Studio, VS Code, Google Anti-Gravity, Cursor
• AI CLI and agentic tools: Claude Code, Gemini CLI, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot

Compensation and Benefits

• Location: Remote-first (US-based); flexible work schedule; occasional travel to customer sites as needed
• Experience: Five-plus years

Why Nexera

• Work at the frontier. We don't just adopt new tools. We build our practice around them. You will use agentic AI development daily, not as a side experiment.
• Real customer impact. Every customer project has a named stakeholder and a measurable business outcome. You will see your work in production, not in a backlog.
• Shape how we work. Build internal tools, experiment with agentic workflows, and improve how Nexera designs, develops, and delivers software. Your ideas become part of our operating model.
• Growth without ceilings. We invest in learning, reward initiative, and promote based on impact, not tenure.
• Small team, big problems. You will have direct influence on how we work, what we build, and where we go next.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building production business solutions. You have shipped real software that real people use.
• Demonstrated agentic engineering experience: You have built with AI agents, used AI-powered development tools in production workflows, and understand the patterns and failure modes of LLM-driven systems.
• Consulting or client-facing experience preferred: You know how to manage stakeholders, navigate ambiguity, and deliver under pressure in someone else's environment.
• Strong communication and customer management skills: You can explain a technical architecture to a VP and pair-program with a junior developer in the same afternoon.
• Problem-solving and analytical mindset: You break down ambiguous business problems into tractable technical solutions.
• Agent design, development, evaluation, and operations: You understand the full agent lifecycle, from prompt design and tool integration through evaluation harnesses and production monitoring.
• Relentless curiosity: You learn new tools and frameworks because you're drawn to them. You have opinions about where AI development is headed and you're eager to prove them out.