Frontier AI Deployment Engineer

Accellor; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Accellor is seeking a Forward Deployment Engineer to deploy frontier AI models into production for strategic customers. You will design, build, and integrate AI-powered systems with client data, APIs, and security controls, and drive adoption in real production workflows.

The role combines hands-on software engineering, AI development, and solution design. You will collaborate across customer teams, deliver measurable business impact, and own production readiness.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on programming experience with Python and at least one additional language such as TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, Java, C++, or Rust.
• Experience building production software systems, APIs, integrations, backend services, data pipelines, or customer-facing applications.
• Strong understanding of LLM application patterns such as prompts, context windows, RAG, embeddings, tool/function calling, agents, evaluations, and model orchestration.
• Ability to work directly with customer engineering and business teams in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
• Strong system design skills with practical judgment around reliability, security, scalability, latency, cost, and maintainability.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with customer engineering, product, business, and domain teams to understand workflows, constraints, and AI opportunities.
• Translate ambiguous customer problems into clear technical plans, milestones, and success criteria.
• Design AI-powered systems that integrate models with customer data, tools, APIs, and security controls.
• Build prototypes and production applications, APIs, and integrations for deployment.
• Own the path from prototype to production, including testing, rollout planning, observability, and reliability.
• Define evaluation methods to measure model quality, grounding, latency, cost, and safety.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

JavaScript

Go

Java

Tools

OpenAI API

ChatGPT Enterprise

Codex

Job description

Accellor is seeking a Forward Deployment Engineer to deploy frontier AI models into production for strategic customers. You will design, build, and integrate AI-powered systems with client data, APIs, and security controls, and drive adoption in real production workflows.

The role combines hands-on software engineering, AI development, and solution design. You will collaborate across customer teams, deliver measurable business impact, and own production readiness.