Forward-Deployed AI Engineer: Enterprise Agent Systems

MaxIT Consulting - Max Corporate Group; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

MaxIT Consulting - Max Corporate Group in San Francisco is seeking a highly technical Forward Deployed AI Engineer – Agents & Research Systems to build and deploy advanced agent systems for large enterprise environments.

This role blends strong software engineering with applied AI research, collaborating directly with customer researchers and engineers to design production-grade data pipelines, post-training workflows, evaluation harnesses, and robust deployments.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to ship production systems.
• Hands-on experience building agent systems, AI applications, or forward-deployed solutions.
• Ability to personally write and own production code.
• Strong understanding of evaluation, agent behavior, and production reliability.
• Willingness to learn new stacks across technologies as required.
• Strong communication with technical enterprise stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship production agent systems for complex enterprise workflows.
• Develop data pipelines, orchestration systems, and evaluation harnesses.
• Run and analyze post-training workflows for customer-specific models and agents.
• Work directly with customer researchers and engineers.
• Evaluate whether performance issues originate in the model, environment, or evaluation framework.
• Translate customer workflows into robust, testable AI systems.
• Own technical deployments from implementation through production use.

Skills

Software engineering

Agent systems

Data pipelines

Production code ownership

Job description

MaxIT Consulting - Max Corporate Group in San Francisco is seeking a highly technical Forward Deployed AI Engineer – Agents & Research Systems to build and deploy advanced agent systems for large enterprise environments.

This role blends strong software engineering with applied AI research, collaborating directly with customer researchers and engineers to design production-grade data pipelines, post-training workflows, evaluation harnesses, and robust deployments.