Hands-on AI Engineer: Deploy GenAI to Production

Reach Velocity - Emerging Technology ?? ??; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Reach Velocity - Emerging Technology is hiring a hands-on Forward Deployed AI Engineer to join a growing AI team within a large global business. You’ll work between engineering and commercial teams, turning real workflows into high-value AI solutions and taking prototypes into production.

You’ll design architectures, help shape the AI roadmap, and communicate trade-offs clearly to senior stakeholders while expanding GenAI capabilities across the organization.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in AI engineering, ML, software engineering or data science.
• Strong Python and software engineering fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience with GenAI, LLMs, RAG, agentic workflows and tool use.
• Experience with frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex or similar.
• Cloud experience, ideally AWS.
• Strong communication skills and confidence working directly with non-technical stakeholders.
• Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science or a related quantitative field.
• Strong curiosity around complex commercial decision‑making problems.
• Build AI products used directly by commercial teams.
• Work on high-impact, real-world problems.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with commercial and operational teams to understand workflows, constraints and priorities
• Translate business problems into technical requirements and practical AI solutions
• Build, integrate and deploy agentic AI applications
• Extend internal GenAI capabilities through integrations, data connectors, tool-calling and MCP-based workflows
• Apply techniques including LLMs, RAG, NLP, time-series forecasting and optimization
• Own delivery from prototype through production
• Communicate technical assumptions, trade-offs and limitations clearly to senior stakeholders
• Contribute to code reviews, experimentation, evaluation and engineering standards
• Help drive adoption of AI tools across the business

Skills

AI engineering

Python

GenAI

LLMs

RAG

tool-calling

cloud AWS

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science or related field

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

AWS

Job description

Reach Velocity - Emerging Technology is hiring a hands-on Forward Deployed AI Engineer to join a growing AI team within a large global business. You’ll work between engineering and commercial teams, turning real workflows into high-value AI solutions and taking prototypes into production.

You’ll design architectures, help shape the AI roadmap, and communicate trade-offs clearly to senior stakeholders while expanding GenAI capabilities across the organization.