Remote Senior Forward-Deployed AI Engineer

Praxent; North Carolina; Remote; USD 194,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO 15 days

US holidays

Wellness days

Parental leave

IRA match

Job summary

Praxent is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to own engagements inside client environments, delivering end-to-end production software. You will lead discovery, decide what to build, and implement architecture while working closely with client engineers and executives.

You will guide a small engineering team, ensure high-quality deployments, and advocate for robust observability, security, and compliance within regulated banking contexts.

Qualifications

• 6+ years shipping production software, including hands-on delivery of LLM and agentic systems.
• Experience leading discovery meetings and scoping decisions with executive presence.
• Hands-on full-stack delivery using Python; .NET or Node acceptable; front-end React/Next.js.
• Experience integrating AI with legacy and governed systems.
• Ability to lead a small engineering team and communicate decisions clearly to stakeholders.
• Experience in banking, lending, or payments with risk/compliance exposure.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical execution of the engagement and deliver production-ready systems.
• Lead executive conversations translating a VP's problem into architecture.
• Make architecture decisions and defend them to engineers.
• Guide Forward Deployed Engineers on the engagement and raise the bar.
• Ensure a production-grade system with guardrails, observability, and documentation.
• Collaborate with Praxent Architects and Product Managers and the client's engineers.

Skills

LLM systems

Client leadership

Python full-stack

Cloud architecture

AI integration

Team leadership

Banking domain

Tools

.NET

Node.js

React/Next.js

Job description

Praxent is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to own engagements inside client environments, delivering end-to-end production software. You will lead discovery, decide what to build, and implement architecture while working closely with client engineers and executives.

You will guide a small engineering team, ensure high-quality deployments, and advocate for robust observability, security, and compliance within regulated banking contexts.