Forward-Deployed AI Engineer: Client-Facing Production AI

scalr; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Early stage equity

Job summary

scalr is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to sit at the intersection of engineering and customer delivery, building production AI systems directly with enterprise clients. You'll work in customer environments, turning ambiguous real-world problems into working software that customers actually use.

Day to day you will deploy LLM-powered and agentic systems, retrieval-augmented applications, and move GenAI features from prototype to production.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of industry experience.
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity and directly in front of customers.
• Strong Python and/or TypeScript skills in production environments.
• Track record deploying data-heavy or AI-enabled applications.
• Able to communicate clearly across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Open to travel, roughly 20 percent.
• Wants the pace and ownership of a startup environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy LLM-powered and agentic systems.
• Develop retrieval-augmented applications.
• Move GenAI features from prototype to production.
• Own evaluation and reliability to ensure long-term operability.

Skills

3+ years exp

Client-facing

Python/TypeScript

AI deployments

Clear communicator

Travel ~20%

Startup pace

Education

CS degree

Job description

scalr is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to sit at the intersection of engineering and customer delivery, building production AI systems directly with enterprise clients. You'll work in customer environments, turning ambiguous real-world problems into working software that customers actually use.

Day to day you will deploy LLM-powered and agentic systems, retrieval-augmented applications, and move GenAI features from prototype to production.