Frontline AI Engineer: Architect & Deploy Enterprise AI

Afresh Technologies; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health plans

Generous parental leave

Equity packages

401k matching

Flexible vacation policy

Professional development program

Work from home stipend

Job summary

Afresh Technologies is seeking a senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer to join a single team delivering AI into enterprise grocery customers and building the supporting platform. You’ll split time between field deployments and platform work, embedding with customer data and engineering teams, then turning those insights into reusable tooling for the team.

You will partner with account leads and customer technical teams to scope, architect data sources, and productionize pipelines and LLM-powered

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production software and data systems.
• Customer-facing: work with a customer’s engineers and data teams.
• Genuine AI/LLM depth — real systems with retrieval/RAG and tool-use.
• Knowledge graphs, ontologies, or semantic layers in production; graph and vector stores.
• Experience in grocery, retail, or supply chain data domains.
• Prior forward-deployed, solutions, or implementation engineering — or early-stage startup experience.

Responsibilities

• Scope and architect data sources, architecture, and path to production with customers.
• Embed with the customer’s data and engineering teams; integrate into their cloud and data platform; build production-grade pipelines.
• Design and ship LLM- and agent-powered systems with retrieval, agentic workflows, data-quality and analytics agents.
• Harden the platform: knowledge grounding layer and retrieval; reusable building blocks across customers.
• Build evals, tracing, and tooling to measure quality and ship faster on the next customer.
• Own the flywheel: field learnings flow into the platform and platform improvements benefit the next customer.

Skills

Production software

Data systems

Customer-facing

LLM depth

MLOps

Tools

LangGraph

MCP

Databricks

BigQuery

Snowflake

Pinecone

Weaviate

Job description

Afresh Technologies is seeking a senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer to join a single team delivering AI into enterprise grocery customers and building the supporting platform. You’ll split time between field deployments and platform work, embedding with customer data and engineering teams, then turning those insights into reusable tooling for the team.

You will partner with account leads and customer technical teams to scope, architect data sources, and productionize pipelines and LLM-powered