Senior AI Forward-Deployed Engineer (Remote)

Praxent; Pennsylvania; Remote; USD 194,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

15 days PTO

9 US holidays

Wellness days

Parental leave

IRA with up to 3% match

Job summary

Praxent seeks a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to own engagements end-to-end, from discovery to production within client environments. You will shape architecture, guide a small team, and bridge conversations between client executives and engineers.

In this role, you’ll deliver Python-based backends with frontend React/Next.js where applicable, and navigate regulated banking/payments contexts with risk and compliance partners. We value collaboration and outcomes.

Qualifications

• 6+ years shipping production software including LLM/agentic systems
• Experience leading discovery meetings and scoping with executives
• Hands-on full-stack delivery with Python; front-end in React/Next.js
• Experience in banking, lending or payments and working with risk/compliance teams

Responsibilities

• Own the technical execution of engagements from discovery to production delivery
• Lead architecture decisions and defend tradeoffs to clients and engineers
• Guide and mentor a small engineering team while maintaining client communication
• Deliver production-ready systems with robust observability, guardrails and documentation

Skills

LLM/agentic systems

Client leadership

Full-stack delivery

Cloud architecture

Regulated environment experience

Team leadership

Tools

Python

React/Next.js

.NET/Node.js

Job description

Praxent seeks a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to own engagements end-to-end, from discovery to production within client environments. You will shape architecture, guide a small team, and bridge conversations between client executives and engineers.

In this role, you’ll deliver Python-based backends with frontend React/Next.js where applicable, and navigate regulated banking/payments contexts with risk and compliance partners. We value collaboration and outcomes.