GenAI & Data Engineer - Forward Deployed (Hybrid DC)

Asterism IT Solutions

Washington (District of Columbia)

Hybrid

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Asterism IT Solutions in the Washington, DC area seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer with deep software and data engineering background, plus GenAI experience. You will work directly with customers to understand requirements, design architectures, and deploy scalable solutions across cloud, data, and AI systems.

You will own end-to-end delivery, including API design, data pipelines, and integration with enterprise data.

Qualifications

14+ years of professional IT/software engineering experience.
Strong hands-on software engineering experience.
Strong data engineering fundamentals: ETL/ELT, data modeling, schema mapping, data pipelines.
Strong Python development skills.
Experience designing and integrating REST APIs and backend services.
Hands-on experience building applications using LLMs/Generative AI.
Experience with AI agents, RAG systems, tool/function calling, or similar.

Responsibilities

Work directly with customers to understand objectives, workflows, and environments.
Translate ambiguous requirements into architectures and working solutions.
Rapidly prototype, build, test, deploy, and iterate on customer-facing solutions.
Own technical delivery from discovery through production adoption.
Design and develop APIs and backend services.
Integrate applications with databases, APIs, cloud services, AI models, and customer systems.
Build ETL/ELT pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and delivery.
Develop GenAI-powered applications that automate complex customer workflows.
Build LLM-based agents and agentic workflows across enterprise data and tools.
Implement tool/function calling, outputs, and workflow orchestration.