Forward-Deployed AI Engineer for Enterprise GenAI & CV

NEXXA; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Nexxa.ai is building artificial super intelligence for heavy industries, delivering production-ready AI-augmented solutions across manufacturing, infrastructure, and logistics.

The Applied AI Engineer will work directly with customers, leading end-to-end delivery of GenAI, vision, and ML-based solutions. Frequent travel to client sites is expected.

Role blends software engineering, ML engineering, architecture, and consulting, with opportunities to mentor others and shape customer outcomes.

Qualifications

• 5–10+ years in engineering roles such as Forward Deployed Engineer, ML Engineer, Software Engineer, Solutions Engineer, or similar.
• Strong proficiency in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, or similar production-oriented languages.
• Hands-on experience with Machine Learning, including training, fine-tuning, evaluating, or deploying models.
• Direct experience with Generative AI (LLMs, multimodal models) and applying them to real-world problems.
• Exposure to Computer Vision techniques (detection, segmentation, OCR, embeddings, multimodal pipelines).
• Strong knowledge of ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, OpenCV, etc).
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Comfort leading customer-facing engagements and guiding stakeholders through ambiguity.
• Willingness and ability to travel frequently.

Responsibilities

• Engage directly with enterprise and strategic customers to understand their workflows, data, and technical requirements.
• Architect, build, and deploy custom solutions leveraging GenAI, LLMs, Machine Learning and Vision models, and customer data sources.
• Lead full project lifecycles: scoping, solution design, development, implementation, testing, deployment, and iteration.
• Integrate and optimize AI/ML pipelines, including data preprocessing, prompt engineering, model selection, and evaluation.
• Build reliable, scalable software integrations using APIs, cloud services, and containerized systems.
• Troubleshoot complex technical issues across the stack—applications, models, data pipelines, infrastructure, and integrations.
• Act as the customer’s trusted technical advisor, enabling adoption of new product capabilities and AI features.
• Partner closely with internal product and engineering teams to communicate customer feedback and shape roadmap direction.
• Produce high-quality documentation, architecture diagrams, runbooks, and technical assets for customer teams.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to internal best practices for FDE delivery.

Skills

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Go

ML engineering

Generative AI

Computer Vision

ML frameworks (PyTorch, TF, OpenCV)

Cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Docker/Kubernetes

Communication

Travel to customer sites

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PyTorch

TensorFlow

OpenCV

Job description

Nexxa.ai is building artificial super intelligence for heavy industries, delivering production-ready AI-augmented solutions across manufacturing, infrastructure, and logistics.

The Applied AI Engineer will work directly with customers, leading end-to-end delivery of GenAI, vision, and ML-based solutions. Frequent travel to client sites is expected.

Role blends software engineering, ML engineering, architecture, and consulting, with opportunities to mentor others and shape customer outcomes.