Senior Agentic AI Architect - Forward Deployed

Vibehackers; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 149,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

Vibehackers in the United States seeks a Senior Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to prototype and architect agentic AI systems for Fortune 500 clients, delivering data governance and measurable ROI. You will embed with executive stakeholders and cross-functional teams to shape platform roadmaps, drive productized delivery, and mentor field engineers and customer teams.

This senior individual contributor role demands rapid prototyping, production-grade code, and deep experience with LLM

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering with substantial customer-facing technical leadership experience (FDE, Solutions Architect, CTO-office equivalents).
• Deep hands-on experience with LLM orchestration frameworks (LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI), vector databases, RAG architectures, and fine-tuning ML models for enterprise use cases.
• Proven experience delivering large-scale BI and data pipeline solutions; comfortable with SQL and cloud data warehousing as well as predictive modeling.

Responsibilities

• Architect and prototype LLM-based, multi-agent, and agentic workflow systems that automate complex reasoning and data governance tasks.
• Embed with Fortune 500 stakeholders to assess data ecosystems, identify governance bottlenecks, and translate needs into technical roadmaps leveraging Alation’s Knowledge Layer.
• Build and deploy BI and ML pipelines that convert cataloged data into executive-grade insights and measurable ROI.
• Partner with Deployment Strategists to align technical delivery with customer business outcomes.
• Define repeatable, scalable solution patterns and delivery methodology to move engagements from custom builds toward productized delivery.
• Feed edge cases and AI use cases back into Product and Engineering to influence the core platform roadmap.
• Design and build internal tooling, accelerators, automation frameworks, and reusable components for the Forward Deployed Engineering team.
• Conduct competitive analysis across customer environments and surface actionable intelligence to Product and GTM teams.
• Mentor field engineers and customer technical teams on agentic AI, data governance, and platform architecture.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Executive communication

Client-facing leadership

LLM orchestration

Rapid prototyping

Stakeholder management

Mentoring

Product and engineering collaboration

Competitive analysis

Tools

LangChain

AutoGen

CrewAI

vector databases

RAG architectures

Job description

Vibehackers in the United States seeks a Senior Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to prototype and architect agentic AI systems for Fortune 500 clients, delivering data governance and measurable ROI. You will embed with executive stakeholders and cross-functional teams to shape platform roadmaps, drive productized delivery, and mentor field engineers and customer teams.

This senior individual contributor role demands rapid prototyping, production-grade code, and deep experience with LLM