Forward Deployed Engineers

WorkTrust Solutions; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

WorkTrust Solutions is seeking Forward Deployed Engineers to join a national, remote-first team delivering AI-enabled, data-driven solutions for business outcomes. You will partner with stakeholders to turn problems into scalable architectures, build end-to-end pipelines, APIs, and integrations, and push production-ready solutions rapidly while maintaining governance and security standards.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering across frontend and backend, cloud platforms, and modern AI

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of AI / LLM technologies experience including LLMs, RAG, or automation frameworks.
• Background as hands-on Forward Deployed Engineer or in similar rapid AI development.
• 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 (React, Next.js, Python, Node.js, AI SDK, Snowflake, Azure, OpenAI API, Anthropic Claude, PyTorch, Pinecone, Qdrant).
• Ability to design and implement data pipelines, APIs, and scalable solution architectures.
• Knowledge of data governance, security standards, and compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders to identify and define high-value use cases with measurable outcomes.
• Translate business problems into technical designs, architectures, and implementation plans.
• Design, build, and deploy end-to-end solutions including data pipelines, APIs, and AI-enabled capabilities.
• Integrate solutions into enterprise systems and workflows for adoption and impact.
• Accelerate delivery from PoC to production in rapid, iterative cycles.
• Ensure reliability, scalability, and performance through monitoring and optimization.
• Collaborate with architecture, security, and data teams to meet governance and security standards.
• Maintain solutions with proper controls and documentation.

Skills

AI/LLM tech

Full-stack development

Data pipelines

Cloud platforms

Backend development

Frontend development

System integration

Tools

Azure

React

Next.js

Python

Node.js

OpenAI API

Anthropic Claude

PyTorch

Pinecone

Qdrant

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.

Work Environment: This role is fully remote full time employee career opportunity. 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

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.

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.

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.