Principal Forward-Deployed AI Engineer (Hybrid)

Verizon; Basking Ridge (NJ); Hybrid; USD 121,000 - 231,000; Full time

Job summary

Verizon is seeking a Principal Forward Deployed AI Engineer to embed with frontline business units, architecting production-grade agentic systems, RAG engines, and full-stack workflows. You will deploy across Domino Data Lab, Airflow, Kubernetes, and cloud providers, while building reusable SDKs and governance frameworks.

The role blends deep systems craftsmanship with a product mindset, addressing complex operational challenges.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through work or military experience, or specialized training.
• Extensive hands-on experience with frontier LLMs and agentic developer frameworks to build scalable solutions.
• Four or more years of shipping production software and/or deploying LLM applications and autonomous tool-calling pipelines.
• Proficiency in Python and modern TypeScript/Node.js for full-stack API integration and backend orchestration.
• Experience designing offline/online eval harnesses, guardrail frameworks, and observability systems.

Responsibilities

• Define the full-stack architecture for embedded AI initiatives, including multi-agent orchestration and enterprise back-end integrations.
• Architect stateful agent workflows with governance rules and strict tool-calling protocols.
• Design production RAG infrastructure with hybrid search and semantic caching.
• Deploy production agent services and scheduled workflows to target runtimes like Kubernetes, Airflow, and cloud services.
• Create evaluation frameworks to measure model drift, hallucination rates, and task completion metrics.
• Generalize deployments into reusable SDKs and libraries; document for internal patents.
• Embed with BU leadership to map processes and identify high-leverage AI interventions.
• Act as technical authority to translate business requirements into scalable architectures.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

SQL

JavaScript

LLMs

Agentic frameworks

Full-stack API integration

Cloud deployment

Distributed systems

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

4+ years of work experience

Tools

LangGraph

Temporal

Docker

Kubernetes

Domino Data Lab

Apache Airflow

Job description

Verizon is seeking a Principal Forward Deployed AI Engineer to embed with frontline business units, architecting production-grade agentic systems, RAG engines, and full-stack workflows. You will deploy across Domino Data Lab, Airflow, Kubernetes, and cloud providers, while building reusable SDKs and governance frameworks.

The role blends deep systems craftsmanship with a product mindset, addressing complex operational challenges.