Forward‑Deployed AI Engineer — Azure & GenAI

Publicis Groupe Holdings B.V; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 155,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellness program

Paid leave

Health benefits

Flexibility

Learning opportunities

Inclusive workplace

Job summary

Publicis Sapient is seeking an experienced Forward Deployed Engineer – Generative AI & Azure to design and build enterprise-grade Generative AI and data solutions on Microsoft Azure, collaborating with client stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.

The role covers Azure OpenAI, LLMs, RAG, AI agents, data platforms, APIs, and enterprise systems, with a focus on security, reliability, deployment automation, and production-ready deliverables.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience designing and developing solutions using LLMs and Generative AI.
• Strong experience with Azure OpenAI or comparable enterprise LLM platforms.
• Experience implementing RAG architectures, AI agents, embeddings, vector search, semantic search, and knowledge-grounded AI solutions.
• Understanding of enterprise AI architecture and patterns for integrating AI solutions with business applications and data.

Responsibilities

• Design Generative AI solutions using Azure OpenAI, LLMs, RAG, AI agents, and enterprise AI platforms.
• Build scalable data solutions with Azure Data Factory, Databricks Unity Catalog, data pipelines, models and integration patterns.
• Architect and engineer cloud-native solutions on Microsoft Azure with security, networking, monitoring and deployment automation.
• Design solutions leveraging vector databases, embeddings, semantic search, and enterprise knowledge-management platforms.
• Develop APIs and services connecting AI apps with enterprise data and systems.
• Apply engineering best practices to move AI solutions from prototypes to production-grade deployments.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Contribute to architecture decisions across AI, data, integration and cloud engineering.
• Work with Azure AI Foundry to accelerate enterprise AI development.

Skills

LLMs

Generative AI

Azure OpenAI

RAG architectures

AI agents

Embeddings

Vector search

Semantic search

Knowledge-grounded AI

Enterprise AI architecture

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Databricks Unity Catalog

Data pipelines

Data modeling

Governance

Data quality

Job description

Publicis Sapient is seeking an experienced Forward Deployed Engineer – Generative AI & Azure to design and build enterprise-grade Generative AI and data solutions on Microsoft Azure, collaborating with client stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.

The role covers Azure OpenAI, LLMs, RAG, AI agents, data platforms, APIs, and enterprise systems, with a focus on security, reliability, deployment automation, and production-ready deliverables.