Forward-Deployed AI Engineer: GenAI & CV Solutions

Nexxa.AI; Germany (OH); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Nexxa.ai is hiring Applied AI Engineers to lead end-to-end delivery of production-ready AI solutions for enterprise customers. You’ll embed with customer teams to translate real-world challenges into scalable GenAI, CV, and ML deployments.

This role blends software and ML engineering, architecture, and consulting. Frequent travel to customer sites and collaboration with product teams are essential to success.

Qualifications

• 5–10+ years in engineering roles such as Forward Deployed Engineer, ML Engineer, Software Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Technical Consultant, 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

Machine Learning

Generative AI

Computer Vision

ML Frameworks

Cloud Infrastructure

Docker

Kubernetes

Communication

Travel readiness

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Nexxa.ai is hiring Applied AI Engineers to lead end-to-end delivery of production-ready AI solutions for enterprise customers. You’ll embed with customer teams to translate real-world challenges into scalable GenAI, CV, and ML deployments.

This role blends software and ML engineering, architecture, and consulting. Frequent travel to customer sites and collaboration with product teams are essential to success.