Senior AI-Native Forward-Deployed Engineer (Enterprise)

Vibehackers; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Vibehackers seeks a Senior AI-Native Forward Deployed Engineer to prototype, deploy, and operationalize AI-native software for enterprise customers. You will be hands-on and advisory, guiding engineering leadership toward AI-native adoption.

This remote role (EST/CST timezone) requires 25–50% travel and a track record delivering production AI systems with multi-agent workflows, RAG pipelines, and dependable CI/CD. You will mentor teams and turn innovations into reusable capabilities.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building and shipping production software.
• Practical experience with AI coding agents in daily workflow.
• LLM prompting, context engineering, and observability.
• Strong proficiency in Python/TypeScript/C#/Java and at least one major cloud.
• Experience advising engineering leadership and working with enterprise customers.

Responsibilities

• Embed with customer engineering teams as a hands-on senior engineer and trusted technical advisor.
• Build AI-native applications and agentic workflows, including multi-agent systems, MCP integrations, and RAG pipelines.
• Prototype in hours and productionize with evaluation, observability, and CI/CD rigor.
• Turn customer innovations into reusable capabilities and golden-path templates for other customers.
• Advise engineering leadership on adoption strategy, tooling selection, and rollout sequencing.
• Assess development practices and define safe AI-assisted development standards (code review norms, prompt/context management, testing, security/IP guardrails).
• Work shoulder-to-shoulder on real backlogs: pairing, design reviews, build-alongs, and office hours.
• Measure and report adoption using agreed metrics (cycle time, review throughput, defect escape rate, tool usage depth).

Skills

8+ years production software

AI coding agents

LLM patterns

Programming: Python/TypeScript/C#/Java

Cloud: Azure/AWS/GCP

Consulting communication

Willingness to travel

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

LangGraph

CrewAI

AutoGen

Semantic Kernel

OpenAI Agents SDK

Job description

Vibehackers seeks a Senior AI-Native Forward Deployed Engineer to prototype, deploy, and operationalize AI-native software for enterprise customers. You will be hands-on and advisory, guiding engineering leadership toward AI-native adoption.

This remote role (EST/CST timezone) requires 25–50% travel and a track record delivering production AI systems with multi-agent workflows, RAG pipelines, and dependable CI/CD. You will mentor teams and turn innovations into reusable capabilities.