Frontline AI Engineer: Deploy & Deliver with Customers

Kalepa

United States

Hybrid

USD 185,000 - 255,000

Full time

4 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Equity options
Excellent benefits
Global team
20 days PTO

Job summary

Kalepa, in New York with a global team, is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers who embed with insurers to integrate Kalepa’s AI platform into their systems and deliver real value quickly. You’ll work directly with customers, design technical approaches, build solutions, and iterate as data demands evolve, with support from product, engineering, and customer success.

Strong coding foundations and customer-facing experience are essential.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of software engineering experience, ideally with time spent working directly with customers.
  • Experience building and using external-facing APIs or designing integrations with 3rd party systems.
  • Take full ownership of your work and drive projects to completion with minimal oversight.
  • Communicate proactively, surfacing blockers, asking the right questions, keeping stakeholders in the loop.
  • Thrive on experimentation: you’re comfortable testing ideas, measuring results, and iterating quickly on problems no one has solved before.
  • Have strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving.
  • Know Python (our main stack), though we’re open to strong candidates from other OO backgrounds.
  • Have experience with serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2), asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments.
  • Have strong knowledge of relational databases and their performance tuning, ideally PostgreSQL.
  • Are comfortable with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL.
  • Bonus: experience with LLMs/generative AI, distributed systems.

Responsibilities

  • Embed directly with customers to integrate Kalepa’s software into their systems and ensure they’re getting full value from the platform.
  • Propose the technical approach, build it, and adapt as clients’ systems and data demand, with alignment from the broader team.

Skills

Software engineering
Customer-facing experience
API integration
Python
Serverless (Lambda / EC2)
PostgreSQL
Distributed systems
LLMs / Generative AI

Tools

PostgreSQL
AWS / Lambda
REST APIs

Job description

Kalepa, in New York with a global team, is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers who embed with insurers to integrate Kalepa’s AI platform into their systems and deliver real value quickly. You’ll work directly with customers, design technical approaches, build solutions, and iterate as data demands evolve, with support from product, engineering, and customer success.

Strong coding foundations and customer-facing experience are essential.

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