Forward-Deployed Data Engineer: GenAI & AI Workflows

IMR Soft LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

IMR Soft LLC is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) specializing in Data Engineering & GenAI in the Washington, DC area. The role blends software, data pipelines, and hands-on AI to solve real customer problems across architectures, APIs, and deployments.

You will prototype, build, and deliver end-to-end solutions, frequently working with customers, senior stakeholders, and diverse data sources in fast-moving environments that require pragmatic, production-ready software.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on software engineering experience.
• Strong data engineering fundamentals, including ETL/ELT, data modeling, schema mapping, and data pipelines.
• Experience designing and integrating REST APIs and backend services.
• Strong Python development skills.
• Hands-on experience building applications using LLMs / Generative AI.
• Experience building AI agents, RAG systems, or AI workflow automation.
• Ability to translate ambiguous customer requirements into working technical solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to work with customers and senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with customers to understand business objectives, operational workflows, technical environments, and pain points.
• Translate ambiguous customer requirements into concrete technical architectures and working solutions.
• Rapidly prototype, build, test, deploy, and iterate on customer-facing solutions.
• Own technical delivery from initial discovery through implementation and production adoption.
• Make pragmatic engineering decisions balancing speed, scalability, security, maintainability, and customer impact.
• Identify technical risks, data-quality issues, integration constraints, and implementation trade-offs early.
• Write production-quality code, primarily using languages such as Python and/or TypeScript.
• Design and develop APIs and backend services.
• Integrate applications with databases, APIs, cloud services, AI models, and customer systems.
• Build lightweight applications and interfaces where needed to deliver an end-to-end customer solution.
• Apply sound software engineering practices around testing, version control, CI/CD, monitoring, security, and documentation.
• Design and implement ETL/ELT pipelines for ingestion, extraction, transformation, and delivery workflows.
• Execute bulk data processing and deliver data products in formats including Parquet, CSV, JSON, and related formats.
• Build, configure, test, and maintain REST/API integrations for customer and internal use cases.
• Design and build GenAI-powered applications that automate complex customer workflows.
• Build LLM-based agents and agentic workflows capable of reasoning across enterprise data, APIs, and tools.
• Develop RAG pipelines connecting LLMs with structured and unstructured enterprise data.
• Implement tool/function calling, structured outputs, workflow orchestration, and multi-step AI systems.
• Build evaluation frameworks and feedback loops to measure and improve AI application quality.

Skills

Software engineering

Data engineering

REST APIs

Python

GenAI

AI agents

RAG systems

Tool calls

Production-ready

Customer-facing

Debugging

Stakeholder communication

DC-area hybrid

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Spark

Kafka

Airflow

dbt

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

IMR Soft LLC is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) specializing in Data Engineering & GenAI in the Washington, DC area. The role blends software, data pipelines, and hands-on AI to solve real customer problems across architectures, APIs, and deployments.

You will prototype, build, and deliver end-to-end solutions, frequently working with customers, senior stakeholders, and diverse data sources in fast-moving environments that require pragmatic, production-ready software.