Senior AI Engineer - Remote, Client-Facing Deployment

Azx; Seattle (WA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Equity

Flexible PTO

Fully remote culture

Job summary

AZX is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to scope, build, deploy, and measure AI systems inside client environments. You will work across utilities, real estate, and logistics to deliver agentic, auditable AI solutions that are measurable against real baselines.

You will collaborate with DevOps, data, frontend and backend teams, owning the delivery lifecycle and ensuring compliance and cost targets. This role emphasizes ownership, client interaction, and strong technical judgment in a

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-stack delivery experience including backend and frontend
• Experience shipping production-grade LLM/agentic systems
• Ability to deploy inside a client cloud with identity providers and compliance
• Strong stakeholder management and executive readouts
• Comfort with ownership under ambiguity and deadlines

Responsibilities

• Own client delivery end-to-end from discovery to handover
• Design and validate solution with clients and architects
• Build deterministic checks and auditability for sensitive outputs
• Optimize pipelines for cost and quality, including model downgrades
• Demonstrate value with measurable KPIs and baselines
• Engage with client IT/security and run demos/POCs

Skills

Full-stack delivery

Python/FastAPI

React/TypeScript

LLM/agentic systems

DevOps/observability

Terraform/Docker

Azure/AWS

Enterprise integration

Stakeholder mgmt

Ambiguity ownership

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree a plus

Tools

Docker

Terraform

Azure

AWS

Postgres/pgvector

Redis

LangGraph/AutoGen/CrewAI

Job description

AZX is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to scope, build, deploy, and measure AI systems inside client environments. You will work across utilities, real estate, and logistics to deliver agentic, auditable AI solutions that are measurable against real baselines.

You will collaborate with DevOps, data, frontend and backend teams, owning the delivery lifecycle and ensuring compliance and cost targets. This role emphasizes ownership, client interaction, and strong technical judgment in a