Senior AI Forward-Deployed Engineer (US Remote)

International Business Machines Corporation; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Consulting is seeking a seasoned Forward Deployed Engineer specializing in Artificial Intelligence to help clients design and deploy cognitive AI solutions, focusing on foundation models, NLP, and ML across production environments in the US.

You will lead full AI project lifecycles, collaborate with data scientists and engineers, and leverage cloud platforms and modern AI tools to deliver scalable, explainable solutions that drive business impact.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated leadership of production agent deployments: orchestration architecture (multi-agent coordination, tool routing, state, retries, HITL), reliability, and scale
• MCP architecture: designing MCP servers and tools as the integration backbone for agents
• Output-evaluation frameworks owned at a leadership level: eval strategy, golden datasets, LLM-as-judge, regression/CI evals, guardrails, and production monitoring of agent quality
• Expert Python; OpenAI API + Codex (or equivalent) / OpenAI Agents SDK; event-driven systems; workflow automation; observability/tracing
• Integration architecture into enterprise systems of record

Responsibilities

• Architect AI Solutions: Design and deliver AI solutions using cutting-edge technologies, with a strong focus on foundation models and large language models, utilizing tools like Github Copilot and Amazon Code Whisperer.
• Develop Cognitive Computing Systems: Create comprehensive cognitive solutions that effectively process and analyze both structured and unstructured data, leveraging expertise in NLP, ML, and AI frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Keras.
• Collaborate on AI Projects: Work on full AI project lifecycle, from research and prototyping to deployment in production environments, utilizing cloud platforms, relational and NoSQL databases, and modern UI frameworks.
• Drive AI Innovation: Pioneer innovative AI solutions, leveraging strong programming skills in Python and experience with AI frameworks, to solve complex business problems and drive cognitive computing advancements.
• Optimize AI Systems: Guide the optimization of AI systems, ensuring effective usage of libraries such as SciKit Learn, Pandas, and Matplotlib, and familiarity with cloud platforms and related services.

Skills

Leadership

Python

OpenAI API

Codex

Event-driven systems

Workflow automation

Observability/tracing

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Keras

GitHub Copilot

AWS

Code Whisperer

Job description

IBM Consulting is seeking a seasoned Forward Deployed Engineer specializing in Artificial Intelligence to help clients design and deploy cognitive AI solutions, focusing on foundation models, NLP, and ML across production environments in the US.

You will lead full AI project lifecycles, collaborate with data scientists and engineers, and leverage cloud platforms and modern AI tools to deliver scalable, explainable solutions that drive business impact.