Remote Forward-Deployed AI Engineer (1–3y)

Trida AI; Charlotte (NC); Remote; USD 69,000 - 96,000; Part time

Job summary

Trida AI deploys Forward Deployed Engineers inside enterprise customer teams to design, build, and ship production AI systems - agents, retrieval, and data integrations - and to leave behind systems the customer can operate themselves. Success is production adoption and measurable workflow impact, not a demo.

Travel to customer sites up to 30% may be required depending on the engagement.

Qualifications

• 1-3 years shipping software, or a strong portfolio/internship record showing the same.
• Production Python, comfortable with APIs and cloud basics.
• Understand LLMs, RAG and embeddings beyond tutorials, and can explain evaluation basics.
• Communicate clearly in writing and with customer engineers.

Responsibilities

• Co-own a scoped workstream on a customer deployment (RAG pipeline, agent workflow, eval set, or integration) alongside a Senior FDE
• Ship production code from your first weeks, not prototypes
• Build and test LLM-powered features: retrieval, prompt/context design, tool use
• Create evaluation sets and run regression checks before releases
• Demo progress and document decisions for customer stakeholders weekly
• Complete the Trida Academy FDE certification path as part of your development

Skills

Production Python

APIs

Cloud basics

LLMs

RAG

Embeddings

Communication with engineers

Job description

Trida AI deploys Forward Deployed Engineers inside enterprise customer teams to design, build, and ship production AI systems - agents, retrieval, and data integrations - and to leave behind systems the customer can operate themselves. Success is production adoption and measurable workflow impact, not a demo.

Travel to customer sites up to 30% may be required depending on the engagement.