Remote Forward-Deployed AI Engineer

Praxent; North Carolina; Remote; USD 156,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

15 days PTO

9 US holidays

Wellness days

Paid parental leave

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

IRA with up to 3% match

Job summary

Praxent is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with a client bank, lender, or payments company and build AI systems that run in production. You own a workstream from problem understanding to delivered, documented solutions, and you will work with Praxent Senior FDEs and product managers and the client's team.

The role emphasizes collaborating across legacy cores, governance, risk and compliance, with a focus on reliability, explainability, and handoff readiness.

Qualifications

• 3+ years shipping production software with client deployments.
• Direct experience with LLM and agentic systems (RAG, frameworks, vector stores, evals).
• Fluency with Python and/or TypeScript; cloud experience (AWS/Azure/GCP) and CI/CD.
• Experience embedded with a client’s environment and working with risk/compliance in regulated settings.

Responsibilities

• Ship dependable AI in the client’s environment with compliant features.
• Own end-to-end workstream from understanding problem to delivered solution.
• Integrate AI with legacy cores, governed data, and client identity/infrastructure.
• Create runbooks, guardrails, and handoffs for client operations.
• Build trust with client engineers through clear communication.

Skills

Production software

LLM / agentic systems

Python

TypeScript

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Client embedding

Banking/payments domain

Tools

RAG frameworks

Vector stores

Evals

Job description

Praxent is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with a client bank, lender, or payments company and build AI systems that run in production. You own a workstream from problem understanding to delivered, documented solutions, and you will work with Praxent Senior FDEs and product managers and the client's team.

The role emphasizes collaborating across legacy cores, governance, risk and compliance, with a focus on reliability, explainability, and handoff readiness.