Forward-Deployed AI Engineer, Agents & Research Systems

MaxIT Consulting - Max Corporate Group; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

MaxIT Consulting - Max Corporate Group in San Francisco invites applications for the Forward Deployed AI Engineer – Agents & Research Systems. You will build production-grade agent systems, data pipelines, and evaluation tooling for large enterprise deployments.

The role blends software engineering with applied AI research, requires ownership of code, and close collaboration with customer researchers and engineers on-site in San Francisco.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to ship production systems.
• Experience building agent systems or AI applications.
• Comfort owning production code and collaborating with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship production agent systems for enterprise workflows.
• Develop data pipelines, orchestration, and evaluation harnesses.
• Run post-training workflows for customer models and agents.
• Collaborate directly with customer researchers and engineers.
• Assess whether issues come from model, environment, or evaluation framework.
• Translate customer workflows into robust, testable AI systems.
• Own deployments from implementation to production use.

Skills

Production systems

Agent systems

Code ownership

Evaluation frameworks

Stakeholder comms

Cross-stack learning

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

MS in CS

Tools

Python

Go

Cloud platforms

Job description

MaxIT Consulting - Max Corporate Group in San Francisco invites applications for the Forward Deployed AI Engineer – Agents & Research Systems. You will build production-grade agent systems, data pipelines, and evaluation tooling for large enterprise deployments.

The role blends software engineering with applied AI research, requires ownership of code, and close collaboration with customer researchers and engineers on-site in San Francisco.