Founding Forward-Deployed AI Engineer

Neuromorphic Labs; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Founding-team equity

Competitive cash compensation

Direct impact on product/architecture

Growth-focused startup culture

Job summary

Neuromorphic Labs in Seattle is seeking a Founding Forward Deployed AI Engineer to help customers integrate our platform from proof-of-concept through deployment and support. This is not a conventional solutions engineering role.

You will be deeply hands-on, building integrations, standing up AI and MLOps pipelines, creating prototypes and demos, debugging customer environments, and turning what you learn in the field into product improvements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience.
• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure and MLOps.
• Experience integrating software into customer environments.
• Strong cloud-native fundamentals (containers, Kubernetes, APIs).
• Proficiency in Python and at least one backend language.
• Strong debugging across application, infrastructure, networking, and deployment layers.
• Strong customer-facing communication.
• Ability to translate customer problems into actionable product and engineering requirements.
• Strong technical writing skills and the ability to create compelling customer-facing content.
• High ownership and bias for action in 0-to-1 environments.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate AI, MLOps, and deployment pipelines.
• Lead technical integrations with enterprises, AI labs, and startups.
• Build proofs-of-concept, prototypes, demos, and reference implementations.
• Debug complex deployment and integration issues across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments.
• Work directly with customers to understand technical requirements and turn them into working solutions.
• Translate recurring customer needs into clear feedback for Product and Engineering.
• Identify customer-specific work that should become reusable platform capabilities.
• Create technical content including integration guides, reference architectures, demos, tutorials, and blogs.
• Partner with Sales, Business Development, and Product on technical discovery, evaluations, and customer engagements.
• Help define the processes, tooling, and technical standards for forward deployed engineering as the team grows.

Skills

Engineering experience

AI/ML infrastructure

Cloud native basics

Python

Debugging skills

Customer-facing

Technical writing

Ownership mindset

Tools

Kubernetes

APIs

IaC

Job description

Neuromorphic Labs in Seattle is seeking a Founding Forward Deployed AI Engineer to help customers integrate our platform from proof-of-concept through deployment and support. This is not a conventional solutions engineering role.

You will be deeply hands-on, building integrations, standing up AI and MLOps pipelines, creating prototypes and demos, debugging customer environments, and turning what you learn in the field into product improvements.