Remote Forward Deploying Engineer — Data & AI Pipelines

Aeolus Data Solutions; Oregon (WI); On-site; USD 135,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Aeolus Data Solutions is seeking a Forward Deploying Engineer to join our remote North America team. You’ll embed with client engineers to design, deploy, and productionize data and AI pipelines, delivering end-to-end solutions with automated tests and CI/CD.

You’ll own technical delivery and the client relationship from scoping to handoff in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment. You will dive into unfamiliar architectures, prototype practical solutions, and harden them into production-grade

Qualifications

• 4+ years building and shipping production software and data systems. You’ve owned systems in production where reliability, latency, and correctness mattered.
• Polyglot engineering skills: Strong Python and SQL fundamentals, with experience in modern application languages (TypeScript or Go) and databases (PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Databricks, or BigQuery).
• Experience with modern data tooling & infrastructure: Orchestration (Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect), transformation (dbt), cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), Docker, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
• Fast ramp-up on unfamiliar codebases. You find your footing quickly in messy, legacy, or partially documented systems and deliver working solutions with minimal ramp-up time.
• Client-facing communication & technical empathy. You can explain complex tradeoffs to engineers and founders alike, write crisp technical documentation, and operate as a trusted technical partner.
• High ownership and self-direction. Flat organization, high trust, no micromanagement — you take problems from vague requirements to deployed solutions.

Responsibilities

• Embed directly with client teams. Partner with client CTOs, engineering leads, and product teams to solve data integration, platform, and AI-readiness challenges.
• Deploy and productionize data & AI pipelines. Build high-throughput ingestion, streaming/batch workflows, reverse-ETL, and API integrations to connect stacks to warehouses and lakehouses.
• Bridge software engineering and data platforms. Write clean Python/TypeScript/SQL; build data contracts; ensure end-to-end reliability from services to AI layers.
• Prototype fast, harden rigorously. Move from scoping to PoCs, then apply CI/CD, testing, Terraform, Docker to produce production infrastructure.
• Own the technical client relationship. Lead technical kickoffs, architect solutions live on calls, guide teams through production handoff across clouds AWS/GCP/Azure.

Skills

Python

SQL

TypeScript

Go

Data pipelines

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Tools

Airflow

Dagster

Prefect

dbt

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Aeolus Data Solutions is seeking a Forward Deploying Engineer to join our remote North America team. You’ll embed with client engineers to design, deploy, and productionize data and AI pipelines, delivering end-to-end solutions with automated tests and CI/CD.

You’ll own technical delivery and the client relationship from scoping to handoff in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment. You will dive into unfamiliar architectures, prototype practical solutions, and harden them into production-grade