Forward-Deployed AI Solutions Engineer

IFS; California; On-site; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible paid time off, including sick

Medical, dental, & vision insurance

401K with Company contribution

Flexible spending accounts

Life insurance and disability benefits

Tuition assistance

Community involvement and volunteering

Job summary

IFS is hiring for a forward-deployed role bridging presales and product. You will work with prospects and customers to identify agentic use cases, develop PoCs with our loops platform, and feed learnings back to the product team.

You’ll be in a hands-on role that combines technical demos with strategic business value discussions. You’ll collaborate across presales, product, and engineering to drive technical validation on live deals and turn patterns into native capabilities.

Qualifications

• Experience: a track record in presales, solutions engineering, or forward-deployed roles, with genuine product instincts.
• Former founders and builders who've shipped 0-to-1 are strongly encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

• Own the full arc from conversation to proof: run discovery directly with prospects and customers, identify agentic use cases with real business value, and build convincing Solutions using IFS loops agentic platform proofs of concept in weeks, not months.
• Be the technical voice customers trust: present the same PoC as a hands-on walkthrough for a technical architect and as a business case for a CxO - sometimes in the same week.
• Sit at the center of presales and product: partner with Account Executives to win technical validation on live deals, and with the Loops product and engineering teams to turn recurring patterns into native platform capability.
• Shape what IFS Loops becomes: what you learn in the field - what works, what doesn't, what customers actually ask for - feeds directly into the Agentic platform roadmap.
• Build faster than anyone else in the room: use AI-assisted development tools to compress prototyping timelines and move at founder speed.
• Bring judgment to ambiguity: know when a use case is real and buildable versus a distraction and scope a PoC that proves the point without overbuilding.
• Train Core presales on standard capability of the platform and digital workers. Run ongoing workshops globally to help them scale.

Skills

Presales

Solutions engineering

Forward-deployed roles

AI / LLMs familiarity

Travel willingness

Job description

IFS is hiring for a forward-deployed role bridging presales and product. You will work with prospects and customers to identify agentic use cases, develop PoCs with our loops platform, and feed learnings back to the product team.

You’ll be in a hands-on role that combines technical demos with strategic business value discussions. You’ll collaborate across presales, product, and engineering to drive technical validation on live deals and turn patterns into native capabilities.