Remote Forward Deployed AI Engineer (Python)

FullStack; Houston (TX); Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Paid Time Off (vacation, sick leave, H

Remote work

Job summary

FullStack is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with enterprise teams, identify AI opportunities, architect end‑to‑end solutions, and deliver production‑ready systems that scale. This three‑way role blends consulting, engineering, and operations; you’ll move from discovery conversations to shipped capabilities, focusing on data, retrieval, and model behavior for trusted AI deployments.

You’ll work with regulated industries and Fortune 500 clients, shaping architecture decisions and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience with at least one mainstream production stack (Python, TypeScript/Node.js, Java, C#/.NET, or Go).
• 1–4 years of professional experience shipping agentic AI solutions, LLM workflows, and RAG architectures in production environments.
• Advanced English is required.
• Four-year college degree required.
• Hands-on experience with frontier AI developer tools including Cursor, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, or OpenAI Codex.
• Experience leading client-facing discovery calls.
• Strong understanding of architecture paradigms such as RESTful APIs, microservices, and event-driven systems.
• Well-versed in agentic orchestration tools and frameworks like LangGraph, LangChain, N8N, or direct Model Context Protocol (MCP) and LLM APIs.
• End-to-end delivery ownership and managing project scope without PM supervision.

Responsibilities

• Discover. Run workshops and process discovery with business, data, and engineering stakeholders.
• Structure the process and the spec. For any business process being automated, map the current state, decision points, data inputs, and exceptions, then turn it into specifications that both people and AI systems can execute against reliably.
• Architect & design. Design agentic systems end to end with emphasis on context and retrieval architecture — data sourcing, chunking, embeddings, hybrid search, reranking, permissions‑aware retrieval, knowledge graphs where warranted — plus orchestration, MCP/tool integration, guardrails, and human‑in‑the‑loop checkpoints.
• Build. Ship working systems — agents, retrieval services, evaluation tooling, and the data flows that feed them. Prototypes that prove value in weeks, not slideware.
• Operate (Day 2). Own what happens after launch — eval harnesses, groundedness and retrieval metrics, observability and tracing, cost and latency management, drift, and the handoff that lets the client’s team run it without you.
• Consult. Present to and defend decisions in front of CTOs, VPs of Engineering, CDOs, and business leadership. Quantify impact in their terms. Support pre‑sales scoping and proposal work when the deal calls for it.

Skills

Software development

Agentic AI

Discovery leadership

Agile / Scrum

English proficiency

Large-scale systems

Delivery ownership

Client discovery calls

Problem decomposition

AI production ops

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

Gemini CLI

OpenAI Codex

Job description

FullStack is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with enterprise teams, identify AI opportunities, architect end‑to‑end solutions, and deliver production‑ready systems that scale. This three‑way role blends consulting, engineering, and operations; you’ll move from discovery conversations to shipped capabilities, focusing on data, retrieval, and model behavior for trusted AI deployments.

You’ll work with regulated industries and Fortune 500 clients, shaping architecture decisions and