Senior AI Deployment Engineer — Remote-Hybrid Impact

Pathward; United States; Hybrid; USD 86,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Pathward is hiring an AI Forward Deployed Engineer to drive deployment-ready AI solutions across our enterprise. You will work with AI Engineers, Data Scientists, and Platform teams to ensure data integrity, deployment readiness, and scalable production implementations in a hybrid environment.

The role emphasizes translating business needs into technical requirements, mitigating risks, and enabling adoption through documentation and knowledge transfer.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Typically, 5+ years of experience in customer-facing or deployment-oriented technical roles.
• Strong understanding of data-driven systems and AI/ML platforms.
• Ability to translate ambiguous business needs into clear technical and data requirements.
• Familiarity with AI/ML concepts (e.g., MLOps, model lifecycle, LLM-based solutions).
• Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical bridge between stakeholders and AI/engineering teams, translating business needs into clear technical, data, and solution requirements.
• Partner with business, product, and technology teams to understand workflows, identify high-value AI opportunities, and align solutions with business outcomes.
• Assess infrastructure, security, access controls, integrations, and other dependencies to ensure environments are ready for production AI deployments.
• Identify and mitigate technical, operational, scalability, reliability, regulatory, and compliance risks throughout the deployment lifecycle.
• Evaluate data availability, quality, lineage, and governance, partnering with data and business teams to address gaps that could impact AI implementation.
• Assess business processes for readiness, ensuring they are sufficiently defined, stable, and measurable to support AI-enabled automation and decision-making.
• Configure, integrate, and deploy AI solutions, including models, workflows, data pipelines, integrations, and supporting services.
• Translate AI prototypes and proofs of concept into scalable, production-grade solutions and troubleshoot issues in pre-production and live environments.
• Enable successful business adoption through documentation, demonstrations, walkthroughs, knowledge transfer, and ongoing stakeholder feedback.
• Capture learnings and establish repeatable patterns, practices, and playbooks that improve the scalability and reusability of AI implementations across the enterprise.

Skills

Strong communication

AI/ML concepts

Translate business needs

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/IS

Job description

Pathward is hiring an AI Forward Deployed Engineer to drive deployment-ready AI solutions across our enterprise. You will work with AI Engineers, Data Scientists, and Platform teams to ensure data integrity, deployment readiness, and scalable production implementations in a hybrid environment.

The role emphasizes translating business needs into technical requirements, mitigating risks, and enabling adoption through documentation and knowledge transfer.