Forward Deployed AI Engineer — GenAI & Agentic Systems (Remote)

International Business Machines Corporation; Detroit (MI); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Consulting seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer - AI to collaborate with clients across industries, turning complex challenges into production-ready AI solutions. You will prototype, deploy, and scale GenAI and agentic AI applications, leveraging LangGraph, CrewAI, and major cloud AI platforms while ensuring safety and reliability.

You will join a team that values curiosity, growth, and long-term career development, with opportunities to drive measurable business value and reusable assets for

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/Data Science or related field.
• 5–7+ years delivering production AI solutions.
• Strong Python and SQL with GenAI/agentic AI experience.
• Experience with cloud AI platforms (AWS Bedrock, Azure, Vertex AI).
• Experience with LLMs, RAG, embeddings, vector stores.
• Strong client-facing communication and translation of business needs to technical solutions.
• Experience with ML frameworks (scikit-learn, PyTorch, Pandas, Spark).

Responsibilities

• Solve client challenges by identifying AI use cases and defining success metrics.
• Build and deploy GenAI, RAG, and agentic AI applications.
• Design LLM-powered agents, tool use/orchestration, and evaluation frameworks.
• Prepare structured/unstructured data and integrate AI with enterprise systems.
• Scale and operationalize AI with MLOps/LLMOps and monitoring.
• Drive business impact and create reusable assets for future engagements.

Skills

AI/ML experience

Python

SQL

GenAI

RAG

LangGraph/CrewAI

Cloud platforms

LLM evaluation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/Data Science

Tools

LangGraph

CrewAI

LangChain

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

FastAPI

Vector stores (Milvus/Pinecone/Elasticsearch)

Job description

IBM Consulting seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer - AI to collaborate with clients across industries, turning complex challenges into production-ready AI solutions. You will prototype, deploy, and scale GenAI and agentic AI applications, leveraging LangGraph, CrewAI, and major cloud AI platforms while ensuring safety and reliability.

You will join a team that values curiosity, growth, and long-term career development, with opportunities to drive measurable business value and reusable assets for