Partner-Facing AI Systems Engineer (Remote-First)

micro1; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Health insurance premium reimbursement

Paid time off

401(K) plan with company match

Remote-first workforce

Job summary

micro1 is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with leading AI labs and enterprises. You’ll partner with researchers and engineers to define goals, build data intelligence systems, and deploy ML pipelines that improve training data and evaluation.

You’ll own multi-turn agent workflows, RAG-based tooling, and end-to-end production systems. You will work in a remote-first environment, collaborating across time zones with technical partners and enterprise stakeholders to translate

Qualifications

• Able to operate independently in ambiguous, partner-facing settings with strong technical and product ownership.
• Strong Python engineer with experience building and shipping production systems end to end.
• Experience working with LLMs, agentic systems, multi-turn workflows, tool use, RAG, or AI automation.
• Built or maintained data pipelines, ML infrastructure, evaluation systems, or research workflows.
• Strong understanding of data quality, taxonomy design, labeling workflows, and dataset curation for AI systems.
• Comfortable working directly with technical partners, researchers, founders, and enterprise stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define research goals, requirements, and project direction with partners.
• Build data intelligence systems for collecting, organizing, evaluating, and improving training data.
• Implement ML pipelines for data curation, training, evaluation, and experimentation.
• Design data taxonomies, labeling systems, and quality frameworks.
• Develop LLM applications, including multi-agent systems and RAG workflows.
• Translate ambiguous AI problems into scoped production projects.
• Develop infrastructure for model inference, experimentation, and deployment.
• Own full lifecycle of systems from discovery to partner success.

Skills

Python

LLMs/AI agents

Production systems

Data pipelines

Multi-turn workflows

Tool use / RAG

Partner-facing communication

Tools

ML infrastructure

Job description

micro1 is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with leading AI labs and enterprises. You’ll partner with researchers and engineers to define goals, build data intelligence systems, and deploy ML pipelines that improve training data and evaluation.

You’ll own multi-turn agent workflows, RAG-based tooling, and end-to-end production systems. You will work in a remote-first environment, collaborating across time zones with technical partners and enterprise stakeholders to translate