Head of Forward-Deployed AI Engineering

Nimble Gravity, LLC; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Nimble Gravity, LLC is seeking an engineering leader to build and coach a distributed team across the Americas, turning ambiguous business problems into production AI systems. You will drive delivery across multiple client engagements, run client demos and architecture sessions, and shape the next phase of work with account leadership.

You will stay hands-on with code, prototype and review designs, and establish repeatable practices and playbooks to scale the team.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years in software engineering with leadership experience.
• Experience delivering client-facing engagements.
• Hands-on with LLMs and agentic patterns.
• Strong Python or TypeScript and API design.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach a distributed engineering team across time zones.
• Own delivery across multiple client engagements.
• Run demos, architecture sessions, and workshops with clients.
• Prototype and review designs, unblock team on agentic workflows.
• Identify next phase opportunities and expand engagements.
• Develop repeatable practices, accelerators, and playbooks.
• Collaborate with data, cloud, and digital engineering teams.

Skills

Software engineering

Distributed leadership

Client-facing delivery

LLM / agentic patterns

Python

TypeScript

Cloud foundations

Tools

Claude Code

Claude Cowork

Anthropic API

Model Context Protocol

Job description

Nimble Gravity, LLC is seeking an engineering leader to build and coach a distributed team across the Americas, turning ambiguous business problems into production AI systems. You will drive delivery across multiple client engagements, run client demos and architecture sessions, and shape the next phase of work with account leadership.

You will stay hands-on with code, prototype and review designs, and establish repeatable practices and playbooks to scale the team.