GenAI Forward-Deployed Engineer (Snowflake)

Deloitte France; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

Deloitte GPS is seeking a Snowflake Forward Deployed Engineer to rapidly prototype and deliver GenAI-enabled solutions in a client-facing role. You will work with senior stakeholders to identify business needs and translate them into scalable AI products, mentoring newer members while delivering production-ready code.

Requirements include a CS/engineering degree, 4+ years in relevant tech roles, Snowflake experience, and the ability to travel ~50% with US work authorization and clearance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 4+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, data science, or analytics engineering.
• 1+ years of hands-on experience building and deploying GenAI/LLM-powered solutions in client or production environments
• 1+ years of experience with Snowflake including hands on experience with Cortex AI, Cortex LLM Functions, Cortex Agents, Arctic Embed
• 1+ years of experience leading project workstreams/engagements and translating business problems into AI solutions
• 1+ years of experience building reliable, maintainable, and well-documented code
• Ability to travel 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
• Ability to obtain and maintain a US government security clearance

Responsibilities

• Embed with clients to identify business needs and translate high-value GenAI use cases into solutions.
• Partner with leaders, product owners, architects, and engineers to align priorities and delivery.
• Lead working sessions to shape solutions and drive client outcomes.
• Prototype and deliver working AI solutions using industry expertise and emerging capabilities.
• Contribute independently within an FDE pod while mentoring newer team members.
• Build AI-enabled solutions, agentic platforms, and workflows across enterprise AI platforms.
• Develop scalable AI engineering patterns, tool-use approaches, and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Apply architecture decisions that balance quality, safety, latency, cost, and model risk.
• Deliver production-quality code using strong practices in testing, CI/CD, logging, versioning, and documentation.
• Design extensible functionality, support sprint sizing, and align solutions with senior team members.
• Contribute reusable assets including code, prompt libraries, runbooks, and reference implementations.

Skills

Leadership & mentoring

Communication skills

Independence & teamwork

Project leadership

Travel ability 50%

Security clearance eligibility

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Snowflake

Cortex AI

Arctic Embed

Spark

Airflow/dbt

MLOps/LLMOps

Job description

Deloitte GPS is seeking a Snowflake Forward Deployed Engineer to rapidly prototype and deliver GenAI-enabled solutions in a client-facing role. You will work with senior stakeholders to identify business needs and translate them into scalable AI products, mentoring newer members while delivering production-ready code.

Requirements include a CS/engineering degree, 4+ years in relevant tech roles, Snowflake experience, and the ability to travel ~50% with US work authorization and clearance