Senior AI Forward-Deployed Engineer (Remote)

International Business Machines Corporation; San Jose (CA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) Consulting seeks a seasoned Forward Deployed Engineer specialized in Artificial Intelligence to tackle cognitive computing challenges. You will leverage data analysis and business acumen to deliver comprehensive AI solutions across structured and unstructured data.

Lead the design of AI solutions, collaborate across teams, deploy production-grade agents, and optimize systems using Python and modern AI frameworks.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated leadership of production agent deployments (orchestration, reliability, scale).
• MCP architecture: designing MCP servers and tools as the integration backbone for agents.
• Output-evaluation frameworks owned at leadership level: eval strategy, golden datasets, LLM-as-judge, CI evals, guardrails, production monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Architect AI Solutions: Design and deliver AI solutions using foundation models and large language models with tools like Copilot / Code Whisperer.
• Develop Cognitive Computing Systems: Build cognitive solutions processing structured and unstructured data with NLP, ML, TensorFlow/PyTorch/Keras.
• Collaborate on AI Projects: Manage full AI lifecycle from research to production, using cloud platforms and databases.
• Drive AI Innovation: Create innovative AI solutions; apply Python across projects to solve business problems.
• Optimize AI Systems: Improve AI systems with libraries like SciKit-Learn, Pandas, Matplotlib; leverage cloud services.

Skills

Production deployments

MCP architecture

Output evaluation

Python

OpenAI API

Codex

Agents SDK

Event-driven

Workflow automation

Observability

Cloud platforms

Relational databases

NoSQL databases

NLP

ML

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Keras

Github Copilot

Amazon Code Whisperer

SciKit-Learn

Pandas

Matplotlib

OpenAI API

Job description

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) Consulting seeks a seasoned Forward Deployed Engineer specialized in Artificial Intelligence to tackle cognitive computing challenges. You will leverage data analysis and business acumen to deliver comprehensive AI solutions across structured and unstructured data.

Lead the design of AI solutions, collaborate across teams, deploy production-grade agents, and optimize systems using Python and modern AI frameworks.