Forward-Deployed AI Engineer for Asset Management

IFS; Itasca (IL); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible paid time off

Flexible spending accounts

Life insurance and disability benefits

Tuition assistance

Community involvement and volunteering

Job summary

IFS Copperleaf seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to bridge Sales, Product, and R&D. You will stand up our product on customer data, prototype near-production solutions, and shape the roadmap with validated patterns. Travel up to 50% may be required.

You own outcomes from discovery to production, delivering value quickly in customer environments and coordinating with sales and product to turn patterns into roadmap investments.

Qualifications

• Customer-facing and commercial ability to drive value for deals.
• Ability to generalize solutions into reusable accelerators.
• Knowledge of AI-enabled engineering and modern coding tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery, scoping, architecture, implementation, evaluation, and adoption for strategic solutions.

Skills

Customer-facing and commercial ability

Abstraction and reuse

AI and agentic engineering

Enterprise integrations familiarity

Asset-intensive domain knowledge

Willingness to travel

Education

No formal education requirement stated

Tools

ESRI ArcGIS/Smallworld

IBM Maximo/EAM

SAP/Oracle ERP/PPM

PowerBI/reporting systems

Job description

IFS Copperleaf seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to bridge Sales, Product, and R&D. You will stand up our product on customer data, prototype near-production solutions, and shape the roadmap with validated patterns. Travel up to 50% may be required.

You own outcomes from discovery to production, delivering value quickly in customer environments and coordinating with sales and product to turn patterns into roadmap investments.