Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer – Industrial AI Deployments

MaxIT Consulting - Max Corporate Group; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

MaxIT Consulting - Max Corporate Group in the SF Bay Area is seeking an Industrial AI Deployment Engineer—Enterprise Integrations to bring AI systems into production for large industrial customers. This is a hands-on, customer-facing software engineering role with ownership of integrations, data flows, and AI-enabled workflows.

You will embed with client teams to build and maintain integrations using APIs, ETL, and enterprise data systems, and work with SAP, ServiceNow, and related platforms.

Qualifications

• 1–5 years in hands-on software engineering, implementation, or forward‑deployed roles.
• Proven ability to ship production code and integrate with complex customer systems.
• Experience with modern AI applications, agentic systems, or retrieval‑augmented generation.
• Strong customer-facing communication and technical depth.

Responsibilities

• Embed with enterprise customers to deploy AI‑powered systems in live environments.
• Build and maintain integrations using APIs, webhooks, ETL, and enterprise data systems.
• Integrate with ERP/CMMS/ticketing/knowledge management platforms; SAP and ServiceNow as needed.
• Develop agentic AI and/or RAG capabilities as part of customer solutions.
• Translate ambiguous requirements into shipped technical solutions; partner with customer teams.

Skills

Hands-on software engineering

Solution engineering

Customer-facing communication

Systems integration

AI applications

Tools

SAP

ServiceNow

Job description

SF Bay Area, California | Fully On-site | Approximately 25% Domestic Travel

We are seeking a technical Industrial AI Deployment Engineer – Enterprise Integrations to bring advanced AI systems into production environments for large industrial enterprise customers.

The Opportunity

This is a hands‑on software engineering role combining customer‑facing deployment work with direct ownership of integrations, data flows, and AI‑enabled workflows.

Key Responsibilities

• Embed with enterprise customers to deploy AI‑powered systems into live operational environments.
• Build and maintain integrations using APIs, webhooks, ETL processes, and enterprise data systems.
• Integrate with ERP, CMMS, ticketing, knowledge‑management, and enterprise service platforms.
• Work with systems such as SAP, ServiceNow, and related enterprise platforms where required by the customer environment.
• Build agentic AI and/or retrieval‑augmented generation capabilities as part of customer solutions.
• Translate ambiguous operational requirements into shipped technical solutions.
• Partner directly with customer engineering and operational teams.

Required Qualifications

• Approximately 1 to 5 years of hands‑on software engineering, implementation engineering, solutions engineering, or forward‑deployed engineering experience.
• Demonstrated ability to personally write and ship production code.
• Experience integrating software with complex customer systems.
• Hands‑on experience with modern AI applications, agentic systems, and/or RAG solutions.
• Strong customer‑facing communication skills combined with technical depth.
• Willingness to travel domestically approximately 25% of the time.

Candidate Profile

This opportunity is best suited to engineers who enjoy operating between product development and customer deployment. Pure pre‑sales, non‑coding consulting, or platform‑configuration‑only backgrounds are not aligned with the role.

Work Arrangement

Fully in person in the San Francisco Bay Area, with domestic customer travel as required.

Work Authorization

Candidates must be able to work in the United States. Certain sponsorship and visa‑transfer scenarios may be considered for candidates already located in the United States.