Forward-Deployed AI Engineer for Enterprise Impact

NielsenIQ; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working environment

Volunteer time off

Job summary

NielsenIQ is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to act like a startup CTO within a Fortune 500 client, delivering rapid, production-grade AI solutions that impact client numbers. You will build data pipelines, ship AI decision applications, and contribute to one-client deployments with a small team.

The role emphasizes speed, client impact, and the ability to operate in ambiguous environments, with a path to leadership as the deployment portfolio grows.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals: production Python and SQL, data pipelines, APIs.

Responsibilities

• Build data pipelines joining NIQ's data with client data.
• Design and ship AI decision applications: recommendation workflows, LLM-agent-driven analysis, and auditability.
• Navigate broken enterprise data environments and ship solutions.
• Work in a small deployment team dedicated to one client.
• Surface reusable patterns from deployments back into NIQ's product platform.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

APIs

LLM APIs

Agent frameworks

Retrieval systems

Tools

Full-stack development

Job description

NielsenIQ is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to act like a startup CTO within a Fortune 500 client, delivering rapid, production-grade AI solutions that impact client numbers. You will build data pipelines, ship AI decision applications, and contribute to one-client deployments with a small team.

The role emphasizes speed, client impact, and the ability to operate in ambiguous environments, with a path to leadership as the deployment portfolio grows.