Forward Deployed Engineers

WorkTrust Solutions; Rhode Island; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

WorkTrust Solutions seeks Forward Deployed Engineers to partner with business teams and deliver AI-enabled products. You will design and implement end-to-end solutions, from problem framing to production, leveraging data pipelines, APIs, and AI capabilities.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, cloud platforms (Azure), and strong communication to bridge gaps between business and technical stakeholders. Remote or hybrid work is available within Rhode Island and surrounding states.

Qualifications

• Five to seven years of AI/LLM related experience or equivalent hands-on work.
• Experience as a hands-on Forward Deployed Engineer or similar rapid AI development role.
• Ability to design and deliver end-to-end data-driven solutions with security and governance in mind.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business stakeholders to identify high-value use cases and define measurable outcomes.
• Translate business needs into technical designs and actionable implementation plans.
• Design, build, and deploy data pipelines, APIs, and AI-enabled capabilities.
• Collaborate with architecture, security, and data teams to ensure compliance.
• Sustain and optimize solutions from concept to production with rapid iteration.

Skills

AI/LLM technologies

Full-stack development

Data pipelines

Cloud platforms

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Azure

OpenAI API

Python

React/Next.js

Snowflake

Job description

We are engaged in a national search for Forward Deployed Engineers who will assist our client in building an Agentic Workforce powered by AI.

The Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) is a hands-on technical contributor responsible for partnering directly with business stakeholders to design, build, and deploy data-driven and AI-enabled solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes. The FDE serves as a bridge between business needs and technology platforms, ensuring rapid transformation of high-value use cases from concept to production.

The Forward Deployed Engineers operate as an embedded engineering partner within business and product teams, who will own end-to-end lifecycle of solutions, from problem definition and architecture through delivery, deployment, and optimization.

This role accelerates time-to-value by integrating enterprise data, systems, and AI capabilities into scalable, secure, and compliant workflows that improve operational efficiency and customer experience.

In this role, the Forward Deployed Engineers will:

• Partner with business stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and define high-value use cases aligned to strategic objectives and measurable outcomes.
• Translate business problems into technical designs, solution architectures, and executable implementation plans.
• Design, build, and deploy end-to-end solutions including data pipelines, APIs, workflow orchestration, and AI/ML-enabled capabilities.
• Integrate solutions into existing enterprise systems, platforms, and workflows to ensure adoption and operational impact.
• Accelerate delivery by moving solutions from proof-of-concept to production in a rapid, iterative manner. (One Month)
• Ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of solutions through monitoring, testing, and optimization.
• Collaborate with architecture, engineering, security, and data teams to ensure compliance with enterprise standards, governance, and security requirements.
• Maintain solutions in alignment with industry requirements, data governance, and internal audit requirements, ensuring proper controls and documentation are in place.
• Contribute reusable code, patterns, and components to enterprise platforms to enable scalability and reduce duplication.

The appropriate individual will have clearly demonstrated experience in the following:

• Five to seven years of AI / LLM technologies including large language models (LLMs), retrieval augmented generation (RAG), or automation frameworks.
• Background as a hands on Forward Deployed Engineer or within similar rapid AI development background.
• Cloud platforms (Azure preferred), containerization, and infrastructure as code.
• Designing and delivering enterprise-grade solutions across data, application, and integration layers.
• Strong full-stack technical skills including backend development, data engineering, and system integration. (i.e. React, Next.js, Python, Node.js, AI SDK, Snowflake, Azure, OpenAI API, Anthropic Claude, PyTorch, VPinecone, Qdrant)
• Ability to design and implement data pipelines, APIs, and scalable solution architectures.
• Software engineering, data engineering, or related technical roles that include one or more of the following: Front-end development, Full-stack engineering, Backend development, Data pipelines, Agent integration, Prompt engineering, Rapid application development or UX prototyping.
• Knowledge of data governance, security standards, and compliance requirements.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams including business, product, and engineering stakeholders.
• Extremely strong communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

Please Note: This is a full-time employee role. This role is not a contract opportunity, and it is not open to C2C. We are not working with third-party firms for this engagement. Our client is not sponsoring visas for this role.

Work Environment: This role is fully remote or can be hybrid in Rhode Island. Remote candidates must reside in one of the following states: Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia