Senior AI Engineer - Enterprise AI Transformation

TEKsystems; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision

401(k) Retirement Plan

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

TEKsystems in Palo Alto, CA is seeking a Senior AI Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer to join a newly formed enterprise AI transformation team. You will partner with business, product, and engineering to identify high-impact opportunities and rapidly bring AI-powered solutions into production.

This contract position emphasizes delivering production-grade AI applications, building multi-agent workflows, and applying LLMs with enterprise-grade reliability.

Qualifications

• Experience deploying AI applications to production environments.
• Hands-on experience developing AI agents from scratch.
• Strong understanding of LLMs, agent architectures, prompt engineering, and context engineering.
• Experience with MCP, skills, tools, harnesses, or similar agent frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business stakeholders to understand challenges and identify opportunities for AI-driven transformation.
• Translate ambiguous business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Design, build, and deploy AI-powered applications and agentic workflows.
• Develop production-grade solutions leveraging LLMs, AI agents, MCPs, skills, and modern AI frameworks.
• Rapidly prototype ideas, validate business value, and iterate based on stakeholder feedback.
• Conduct solution demos and communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Collaborate with product, program, and engineering teams to drive adoption and measurable business outcomes.
• Help establish best practices for enterprise AI delivery and implementation.

Skills

Production AI Agent Development

Decompose Ambiguous Problems

Stakeholder Communication

Job description

TEKsystems in Palo Alto, CA is seeking a Senior AI Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer to join a newly formed enterprise AI transformation team. You will partner with business, product, and engineering to identify high-impact opportunities and rapidly bring AI-powered solutions into production.

This contract position emphasizes delivering production-grade AI applications, building multi-agent workflows, and applying LLMs with enterprise-grade reliability.