Hybrid AI Deployment Engineer for Real-World Impact

IFS; Itasca (IL); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary range: $130,000 to $160,000 per

401K with company match

Flexible paid time off (PTO)

Life insurance and disability benefits

Tuition assistance

Community involvement and volunteering

Job summary

IFS is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to bring AI into real business operations, bridging engineering, consulting, and business change. You will build and run applications for the IFS M&A Group, delivering production AI solutions to acquired companies and connecting to enterprise systems.

You will work independently on projects within approved architecture, security, and data standards, accelerating decisions when outside guidelines.

Qualifications

• In-depth expertise in AI/software engineering with solid understanding of data, cloud, security and business context.
• Experience shipping at least one system to production and measuring its impact.
• Experience building an LLM application used by real users, with tool use, retrieval and prompt/context design.
• Experience with API integrations between AI platforms and enterprise systems (e.g. Salesforce, HubSpot, NetSuite, Databricks) and related governance.
• Proficiency in Python backend (FastAPI or similar), React/TypeScript, SQL, and cloud (Azure preferred), plus IaC and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Deliver AI projects and workstreams from discovery to production, with clear milestones.
• Support discovery with stakeholders to understand workflows and desired outcomes; identify AI use cases.
• Prototype and validate solutions; design scalable integrations to existing applications and data sources.
• Ship features scoped to users; document data sources and models for transparency.
• Train users and support adoption; measure results against initial objectives.

Skills

Python

React/TypeScript

SQL

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

API design/integrations

Data security

Tools

FastAPI

Job description

IFS is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to bring AI into real business operations, bridging engineering, consulting, and business change. You will build and run applications for the IFS M&A Group, delivering production AI solutions to acquired companies and connecting to enterprise systems.

You will work independently on projects within approved architecture, security, and data standards, accelerating decisions when outside guidelines.