Senior AI Integration Engineer — Enterprise Deployments

Blue Machines AI; Texas; On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Machines AI seeks a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to own the end-to-end lifecycle of integrations between our AI platform and enterprise systems. You will design, deploy, and operate scalable integrations across APIs, cloud infrastructure, and AI frameworks, delivering production-grade solutions and guiding deployments to go-live.

You will mentor engineers, contribute to the integration playbook, and collaborate with product and engineering to shape the roadmap.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of software engineering experience, including 2-3 years in customer-facing or integration roles.
• Strong expertise in Python or Java for backend services and integrations.
• Deep hands-on experience deploying and operating production workloads on major cloud platforms (GCP preferred).
• Proven track record designing and shipping large-scale integrations with enterprise systems (CRMs, ERPs, internal APIs).
• Strong API design and authentication/authorization knowledge (OAuth2, JWT, SAML/SSO, mTLS).
• Experience with AI/LLM ecosystems (prompt engineering, LangChain-style orchestration, or agent frameworks).
• Strong system design skills with focus on performance, reliability, and security.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication, including comfort with senior customer stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and own complex integrations using REST APIs, WebSockets, and webhooks.
• Deploy production solutions on cloud platforms, including networking, security, and cost decisions.
• Lead integration of AI/LLM capabilities into customer workflows and design orchestration.
• Serve as the main technical contact for enterprise customers and drive deployments to go-live.
• Debug and resolve production issues across distributed systems and perform root-cause analysis.
• Set up observability, monitoring, and alerting for integration workflows and drive automation.
• Build reusable connectors and best practices to speed future deployments.
• Mentor engineers and feed customer insights into the platform roadmap.
• Travel to customer sites roughly 10-20%.

Skills

Python

Java

Problem solving

Communication

Tools

Postman

Wireshark

Datadog

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Blue Machines AI seeks a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to own the end-to-end lifecycle of integrations between our AI platform and enterprise systems. You will design, deploy, and operate scalable integrations across APIs, cloud infrastructure, and AI frameworks, delivering production-grade solutions and guiding deployments to go-live.

You will mentor engineers, contribute to the integration playbook, and collaborate with product and engineering to shape the roadmap.