Senior AI Forward-Deployed Engineer - Remote US

International Business Machines Corporation; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Consulting is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer – AI to work with clients across industries in transforming complex challenges into production‑ready AI solutions. You will prototype, deploy, and scale GenAI, agentic AI, and data‑driven systems using LangGraph, CrewAI, and hyperscaler platforms.

Strong collaboration with business and technical teams is essential. You will lead end‑to‑end AI solutions, ensure guardrails and reliability, and help drive measurable business value while

Qualifications

• 8–12+ years delivering production AI solutions.
• Strong Python and SQL capabilities with GenAI apps.
• Experience with LLMs, RAG, and multi‑step workflows.
• Exposure to cloud AI platforms and ML tooling.

Responsibilities

• Translate client challenges into AI use cases and metrics.
• Build end-to-end GenAI, agentic AI apps and workflows.
• Design LLM-powered agents with tool use and orchestration.
• Prepare data and integrate AI with enterprise systems.
• Apply MLOps/LLMOps practices for production readiness.
• Demonstrate outcomes and drive client adoption.

Skills

Python

SQL

GenAI

LLMs

RAG

LangGraph

CrewAI

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master's preferred

Tools

LangChain

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

Milvus/Elasticsearch/pqvector

AWS/GCP/Azure

Vertex AI

Job description

IBM Consulting is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer – AI to work with clients across industries in transforming complex challenges into production‑ready AI solutions. You will prototype, deploy, and scale GenAI, agentic AI, and data‑driven systems using LangGraph, CrewAI, and hyperscaler platforms.

Strong collaboration with business and technical teams is essential. You will lead end‑to‑end AI solutions, ensure guardrails and reliability, and help drive measurable business value while