Remote Forward-Deployed AI Engineer

S27a; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

S27a is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to collaborate directly with top AI labs and enterprise partners. You will shape research directions, build data pipelines, and deploy scalable ML systems in production environments.

You’ll navigate ambiguous problems, own end-to-end delivery from architecture to deployment, and drive impact across multi-turn agent workflows and RAG-enabled applications.

Qualifications

• Strong Python development experience with production systems.
• Experience designing and implementing ML pipelines and data workflows.
• Familiarity with LLMs, multi-turn workflows, and agent frameworks.
• Understanding of data quality, taxonomy design, and dataset curation for AI.

Responsibilities

• Work with AI labs and enterprise partners to define goals and technical requirements.
• Build data intelligence systems for collecting, organizing, evaluating, and improving data.
• Implement ML pipelines for data curation, training, evaluation, and experimentation.
• Develop LLM applications, including multi-agent systems and RAG workflows.
• Partner with research and engineering teams to translate AI problems into scoped projects.
• Develop infrastructure for model inference, evaluation, and deployment across platforms.
• Build systems that enable repeatable, scalable AI experiments and partner success.

Skills

Python

LLM Systems

ML Infrastructure

RAG/AI Automation

Job description

S27a is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to collaborate directly with top AI labs and enterprise partners. You will shape research directions, build data pipelines, and deploy scalable ML systems in production environments.

You’ll navigate ambiguous problems, own end-to-end delivery from architecture to deployment, and drive impact across multi-turn agent workflows and RAG-enabled applications.