Remote Enterprise Data Engineer — AI/Cloud (Forward Deployed)

Intuitive.ai; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive.AI is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to solve complex data and AI problems within enterprise environments. You will work directly with customers, turning ambiguous business questions into working systems that run in their environments, from the initial technical conversation through deployment and handover to delivery.

The role emphasizes shipping real solutions, not demos, with intense collaboration across security, network, and compliance teams to ensure a robust, scalable

Qualifications

• 10-15 years building data and software systems with meaningful time in front of customers.
• Deep expertise in one of: domain, modern data/AI engineering, or enterprise cloud infrastructure; working knowledge of a second.
• A track record of personally shipping, not only directing, something built in the last twelve months.

Responsibilities

• Sit with customer teams to understand the business problem before proposing a technical one.
• Get into real systems fast: connect to sources, profile the data, and establish what is actually true.
• Design and build the first working increment on a modern lakehouse and AI stack, in the customer’s environment.
• Scope honestly. Write the technical case a statement of work is built on, and stand behind the estimate.
• Work with the customer’s security, network, and compliance teams to get the environment the build needs.
• Hand over cleanly to the delivery team and move on to the next problem.

Skills

Data engineering experience

Customer-facing experience

Shipping experience

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

BigQuery

Synapse

Delta/Iceberg

dbt

Airflow

Job description

Intuitive.AI is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to solve complex data and AI problems within enterprise environments. You will work directly with customers, turning ambiguous business questions into working systems that run in their environments, from the initial technical conversation through deployment and handover to delivery.

The role emphasizes shipping real solutions, not demos, with intense collaboration across security, network, and compliance teams to ensure a robust, scalable