Remote Senior Forward Deployed Engineer AI & Data

afresh

United States

Hybrid

USD 150,000 - 210,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Mental-health support

Retirement matching

Equity

Home-office and coworking support

Professional-development funding

Monthly wellness stipend

Telecommunications stipend

Flexible paid time off

Job summary

afresh is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to blend customer-facing delivery with platform engineering. You will partner with enterprise grocery teams to integrate data, build production-grade AI systems, and distill deployment learnings into reusable infrastructure and tools.

You will design scalable data pipelines, connect cloud data platforms, and develop LLM/agent solutions with evaluation and observability, delivering repeatable, high-quality implementations across multiple

Qualifications

3+ years of production software and data systems experience.
Able to turn ambiguous problems into architectures.
Hands-on experience with real LLM/agent apps including retrieval-augmented generation.
Strong data engineering with production pipelines and enterprise data modeling.
Comfort switching between customer-facing work and platform development.
Ability to lead technical sessions and build trust through delivery.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with customer teams to scope, design, and productionize solutions.
Build data pipelines and transform enterprise data into reliable products.
Design and deploy production-grade LLM and agent systems with tooling and QA.
Enhance platform capabilities like knowledge graphs, retrieval, and serving layers.
Develop evaluation, tracing, and observability to measure quality and cost.
Create reusable interfaces and components, feeding learnings back to the platform.