Frontier AI Deployment Engineer

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Accellor is seeking a hands-on Forward Deployment Engineer to work directly with strategic customers, deploying frontier AI models into real production environments. You will design practical AI solutions, build systems, and drive adoption in production while collaborating with customer teams.

The role requires strong software engineering and AI deployment skills, experience with Python and multiple languages, and a proven ability to ship production outcomes in complex enterprise environments.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in software engineering and AI engineering.
• Programming in Python plus another language (TypeScript/JavaScript/Go/Java/C++/Rust).
• Experience building production software systems, APIs, integrations, backend services, data pipelines, or customer-facing applications.
• Understanding of LLM patterns, 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 reliability, security, scalability, latency, cost, and maintainability.
• Excellent communication skills and ownership mindset.

Responsibilities

• Understand workflows with customer teams and translate problems into technical plans with success criteria and milestones.
• Design AI-powered systems that integrate models with data, tools, APIs, applications, and security controls.
• Build prototypes and production applications, APIs, integrations, and workflow automation.
• Own the path from prototype to production, including testing, rollout planning, observability, and reliability.
• Define evaluation methods to measure model quality, grounding, accuracy, latency, cost, safety, and workflow impact.
• Capture learnings from deployments and share actionable feedback with Product, Research, Engineering, Safety, and GTM teams.

Skills

Software engineering

Applied AI engineering

Solutions engineering

Platform engineering

Technical consulting

Python

TypeScript

JavaScript

Go

Java

C++

Rust

LLM patterns

System design

Customer collaboration

Communication

Ownership mindset

Tools

APIs

Backend services

Data pipelines

Job description

Accellor is seeking a hands-on Forward Deployment Engineer to work directly with strategic customers, deploying frontier AI models into real production environments. You will design practical AI solutions, build systems, and drive adoption in production while collaborating with customer teams.

The role requires strong software engineering and AI deployment skills, experience with Python and multiple languages, and a proven ability to ship production outcomes in complex enterprise environments.