Mission-Critical AI Forward-Deployed Engineer

OpenTrain AI; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 213,000 - 288,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenTrain AI is seeking an expert AI Forward Deployed Engineer for a contractor engagement based in the United States. You will design, implement, deploy, and maintain agentic AI systems spanning LLM applications and model infrastructure, working alongside government partners in forward-deployed environments.

The role requires expert Python, end-to-end ownership, and fluency in English, with a 6+ month horizon and a minimum 20 hours per week commitment.

Qualifications

• Strong Python engineering skills.
• Experience creating agentic systems and working with LLMs.
• Experience building or maintaining data pipelines and ML infrastructure.
• Experience with distributed systems.
• Understanding RL workflows or simulation environments.
• Ability to operate independently in ambiguous, partner-facing settings.
• Comfort working in high-security and high-reliability environments.
• Fluent English proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy agentic AI systems from prototype through production.
• Design LLM applications, including multi-agent systems, tool-using agents, RAG workflows, and human-in-the-loop autonomy.
• Work with government partners in forward-deployed environments to translate mission needs into technical systems.
• Build and maintain large-scale data curation and evaluation pipelines for model training and improvement.
• Develop infrastructure for model inference, experimentation, evaluation, and deployment across frontier AI platforms.
• Build AI systems that connect mission data, models, and tools to operational autonomy.
• Own discovery, architecture, implementation, deployment, reliability, security, and iteration.
• Work with evaluation rating, text generation, question answering, and RLHF tasks.

Skills

Python

LLMs

Agentic systems

Data pipelines

ML infrastructure

Distributed systems

English fluency

Independent work

Job description

OpenTrain AI is seeking an expert AI Forward Deployed Engineer for a contractor engagement based in the United States. You will design, implement, deploy, and maintain agentic AI systems spanning LLM applications and model infrastructure, working alongside government partners in forward-deployed environments.

The role requires expert Python, end-to-end ownership, and fluency in English, with a 6+ month horizon and a minimum 20 hours per week commitment.