Forward-Deployed AI Engineer: Enterprise Agents & 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 is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer – Agents & Research Systems to build and deploy advanced agent systems for large enterprise environments.

You will work directly with technically sophisticated customers, building agent systems, data pipelines, and evaluation infrastructure required for production deployments. The role values hands-on coding and ownership in a primarily on-site setting.

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.
• Ability to work across technologies and learn new stacks as required by the problem.
• Strong communication skills 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

Production code

Evaluation

Communication

Cross-stack learning

Job description

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

You will work directly with technically sophisticated customers, building agent systems, data pipelines, and evaluation infrastructure required for production deployments. The role values hands-on coding and ownership in a primarily on-site setting.