Senior Applied AI Engineer, Forward Deployed

OryonTech; United States; Remote; USD 4,100 - 6,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote across Africa

Nigeria salary discussions

Job summary

OryonTech is seeking a senior engineer to own the technical delivery and production performance of AI agents that automate business workflows through conversational interfaces. The role blends backend and agent engineering with discovery, implementation, evaluation, and production support, turning deployment needs into reusable capabilities for multiple customers.

You will work remotely with international customers, collaborating across backend, infra, product, and GTM teams to reduce latency,

Qualifications

• Senior-level ownership across AI agent systems and customer deployments.
• Translate customer requirements into reliable, secure, maintainable production software.
• Active use of AI-assisted engineering tools as part of the development workflow.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business users to understand requirements and deliver agent workflows from discovery through production operation.
• Design and improve how agents interpret requests, maintain context, access business data, execute actions, and escalate to humans.
• Contribute to architecture, implementation, evaluation, and production troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with backend, infrastructure, product, and go-to-market colleagues to deliver maintainable shared capabilities.
• Improve workflow completion, agent quality, failure rates, latency, and operating cost; establish visibility and recovery practices.
• Use approved AI coding assistants and agentic development tools in day-to-day engineering work.

Skills

Senior ownership

Backend development

AI agent workflows

Customer deployment

Tools

Python

Relational databases

Cloud infrastructure

Messaging integrations

Job description

Role overview

Own the technical delivery and production performance of AI agents that handle business workflows through conversational interfaces. This customer-facing role combines backend and agent engineering with discovery, implementation, evaluation, and operational support; it also involves turning deployment-specific needs into capabilities that can be reused across customers.

Responsibilities

• Work with business users to understand requirements and deliver agent workflows from discovery through production operation.
• Design and improve how agents interpret requests, maintain context, access business data, execute actions, and escape to human operators.
• Contribute directly to architecture, implementation, evaluation, and production troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with backend, infrastructure, product, and go-to-market colleagues to deliver maintainable shared capabilities.
• Improve workflow completion, agent quality, failure rates, latency, and operating cost; establish visibility and recovery practices.
• Use approved AI coding assistants and agentic development tools in day-to-day engineering work.

Requirements

• Senior-level engineering ownership across AI agent systems, backend development, and customer deployment.
• Ability to translate customer requirements into reliable, secure, maintainable production software.
• Active use of approved AI-assisted engineering tools as part of the development workflow.
• The source also names Python, AI agent frameworks, relational databases, cloud infrastructure, and messaging integrations as part of the technical environment; specific proficiency requirements were not included in the available excerpt.

Nice to have

• Experience with model training, fine-tuning, or inference optimization using tools such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or Hugging Face.
• Previous customer-facing implementation, forward-deployed, or founding-engineer experience.
• A track record of turning needs from multiple deployments into shared product capabilities.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote, customer-facing work across Africa, with Nigeria preferred.
• The listed monthly base salary for Nigeria is ₦500,000–₦800,000, depending on experience and demonstrated production ownership. Compensation outside Nigeria is discussed separately.