Forward Deployed Engineer - AI Solutions (Gracenote Division)

Nielsen Holdings Plc; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Nielsen Gracenote division seeks a technical Product Solutions Architect to lead pre-sales and implementation for API and AI products. You will bridge customers with product and engineering, enabling integration of authoritative metadata into LLM-powered experiences and highlighting AI-first value.

You will design and deploy agentic AI solutions, guide developers, and map MCP resources to customer workflows, ensuring scalable, secure API access and standardized practices.

Qualifications

• Solid grasp of agent creation and agentic deployment frameworks and MCP tooling, including how LLMs use MCP primitives (Tools, Resources, Prompts), JSON-RPC 2.0, and AWS ecosystem with Cognito for identity management and secure API access control.
• Experience designing or observing multi-step AI agents using frameworks such as Google ADK, AWS Bedrock Agents, LangChain, or LlamaIndex; expertise in tool chaining (MCP) and function calling across major LLMs; knowledge of prompts and system design.

Responsibilities

• Technical Pre-Sales & Consultation: partner with Sales to demonstrate AI solution value, lead discovery, validate use-cases, run proofs of concepts, and drive adoption to contract closure.
• Develop Agentic Solutions: build and maintain focused AI agents showcasing MCP Server capabilities like conversational search, catalog enrichment, and personalized recommendations.
• Deploy on Frameworks: deploy agents on Google or AWS frameworks to prove efficacy.
• Solution Architecture: analyze customer environments and map Gracenote tools to AI-based workflows; act as Customer Zero for MCP tools.
• Implementation Excellence: guide developers, document integration use cases, and support JSON-RPC 2.0 API/server interactions.
• Product Advocacy: relay customer requirements to influence product roadmaps and create technical documentation.
• Strategic Engagement: establish SLAs and best practices for global Tier 1 and 2 accounts.

Skills

Technical mastery

Agentic AI & orchestration

Tools

AWS Cognito

Google ADK

LangChain

LlamaIndex

JSON-RPC 2.0

Job description

Company Description

At Nielsen, we are passionate about our work to power a better media future for all people by providing powerful insights that drive client decisions and deliver extraordinary results. Our talented, global workforce is dedicated to capturing audience engagement with content - wherever and whenever its consumed. Together, we are proudly rooted in our deep legacy as we stand at the forefront of the media revolution. When you join Nielsen, you will join a dynamic team committed to excellence, perseverance, and the ambition to make an impact together. We champion you, because when you succeed, we do too. We enable your best to power our future.

Job Description

This opportunity is for Nielsen's Gracenote division - the premier entertainment metadata company in the world, powering the search, discovery, and navigation systems for the globe's biggest tech, automotive, and media giants.As entertainment becomes more fragmented and AI reshapes the way people discover and engage with content, trusted data and technology are powering the future and are the foundation for better experiences. In partnership with our clients and by fully embracing AI, we are reinventing the business, products and teams to capture a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity which will significantly impact the media and entertainment ecosystem as a whole.We are seeking a highly technical, customer-focused Product Solutions Architect (PSA) to lead technical pre-sales and implementation for our suite of API and AI products, with a primary focus on creating agents that solve customer problems with our newly launched and forthcoming Gracenote Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers. You will serve as the technical bridge between our customers and our product/engineering teams, enabling B2B clients to successfully integrate our authoritative metadata into their LLM-powered discovery experiences, and highlight the value of AI-first approaches to their business problems.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Pre-Sales & Consultation: Partner with Sales to apply Gracenote's GTM strategy, demonstrate the value of AI solutions to a variety of customer stakeholders (Product, Technology, or Marketing -oriented profiles). Lead discovery sessions, understand customer use-cases, AI -based architecture and identify tangible value propositions for how Gracenote metadata can improve customers discovery experience using AI. Elaborate and run proof of concepts. Own and secure customer engagement and adoption through contract signature.
• Develop Agentic Solutions: Design, build, and maintain a portfolio of focused, single-purpose AI agents that demonstrate specific technical capabilities of the Gracenote Video MCP Server — translating complex, multi-step entertainment workflows (such as conversational search, catalog enrichment, and personalized recommendations) into tangible, hands-on prototypes
• Deploy on Frameworks: Possess experience deploying these agents on various agentic frameworks, such as those provided by Google or AWS, to prove their efficacy
• Solution Architecture: Analyze complex, siloed customer environments to recommend optimal integration patterns and map Gracenote tools/resources to customer-specific AI -based workflows. Act as "Customer Zero" to familiarize with, test and validate new MCP tools and features before they roll out to clients.
• Implementation Excellence: Guide developers through the technical adoption process, providing code-level guidance, documenting integration use cases, and helping customers leverage JSON-RPC 2.0 standards for seamless API/server interaction.
• Product Advocacy: Function as the "voice of the customer" to influence product roadmaps, translating customer requirements into actionable product inquiries (PIs) and technical documentation.
• Strategic Engagement: Establish standardized SLAs and best practices for implementation, ensuring consistent delivery across Tier 1 and Tier 2 global accounts.

Qualifications

• Technical Mastery: Solid grasp of agent creation and agentic deployment frameworks and MCP tooling, specifically how LLMs utilize MCP primitives (Tools, Resources, Prompts), JSON-RPC 2.0, and AWS ecosystem with specific, practical experience leveraging AWS Cognito for identity management, user authentication, and secure API access control.
• Agentic AI & Orchestration: Experience designing, deploying, or observing multi-step AI agents using one or more of the following frameworks: Google ADK, AWS Bedrock Agents, LangChain, or LlamaIndex preferred. Deep understanding of tool chaining (MCP), system prompt engineering, function calling across major LLMs (Gemini, Claude, GPT), and step-level tracing or response evaluation.