Remote Forward Deployed Engineer (Client-Embedded AI)

Azumo; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO

US Holidays

AI Training

Mentored career development

Profit sharing

US remuneration

Job summary

Azumo is a San Francisco-based software company that builds production AI systems and provides nearshore AI engineering teams. We hire Forward Deployed Engineers who sit inside a client's team, own the system, and are responsible from the first conversation through release and post‑delivery.

This role is fully remote across Latin America, aligned to the client’s working day. You will work with AI tooling, data pipelines, models, and production systems, taking end-to-end ownership and direct

Qualifications

• 7+ years building and shipping production software in at least one lane
• Experience as the only engineer on an engagement or first on a new client
• Delivering inside a client's environment without external specs
• Direct client-facing experience with scoped work
• End-to-end ownership of at least one system in production
• Daily delivery with AI coding agents in the repository context
• Cloud deployment on Azure or AWS with Docker, CI/CD, and IaC
• English at C1/C2 for client communication
• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field, or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery from discovery to release and post-incident handling
• Tackle unclaimed work and take proactive ownership
• Make direct client-facing decisions with justification
• Verify acceptance criteria with no separate testing phase
• Ensure reproducible delivery with gates and agent context
• Work inside the client's environment with their repositories and constraints
• Maintain SOC 2/HIPAA considerations as required

Skills

End-to-end ownership

Client-facing experience

AI coding agents

Cloud deployment (Azure/AWS)

Docker & CI/CD

English proficiency (C1/C2)

Production software delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Equivalent professional experience

Tools

Docker

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Bicep

Azure

AWS

Job description

Azumo is a San Francisco-based software company that builds production AI systems and provides nearshore AI engineering teams. We hire Forward Deployed Engineers who sit inside a client's team, own the system, and are responsible from the first conversation through release and post‑delivery.

This role is fully remote across Latin America, aligned to the client’s working day. You will work with AI tooling, data pipelines, models, and production systems, taking end-to-end ownership and direct