Senior Applied AI Engineer - Forward-Deployed

VitalEdge Technologies Inc.; Waltham (MA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

VitalEdge Technologies Inc. is seeking a Senior Internal Forward Deployed Engineer in Waltham, MA to bridge business strategy with hands-on AI engineering.

You will lead a small team building production AI agents, RAG systems, and enterprise integrations to deliver real value and drive adoption. The role reports to the CEO and requires strong Python skills, cloud-native development, and experience shipping AI solutions in enterprise environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of production software/AI experience.
• Strong Python and software fundamentals (version control, testing, CI/CD, APIs, cloud-native).
• Experience building production AI apps using agent development, multi-agent orchestration, RAG, tool integrations.
• Ability to translate business problems into pragmatic technical solutions.
• Experience mentoring engineers or leading a small technical team.

Responsibilities

• Translate business priorities into production AI solutions.
• Architect agentic systems and reliable architectures.
• Lead the AI engineering pod and coach associates.
• Deliver measurable value through adoption and execution.

Skills

Python

Cloud-native development

APIs

CI/CD

Agent development

Multi-agent orchestration

RAG

Context engineering

Harness engineering

Loop engineering

Graph engineering

Evals

Strong communication

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, AI, or related discipline

Tools

LangGraph

LangChain

Semantic Kernel

AutoGen

CrewAI

Job description

VitalEdge Technologies Inc. is seeking a Senior Internal Forward Deployed Engineer in Waltham, MA to bridge business strategy with hands-on AI engineering.

You will lead a small team building production AI agents, RAG systems, and enterprise integrations to deliver real value and drive adoption. The role reports to the CEO and requires strong Python skills, cloud-native development, and experience shipping AI solutions in enterprise environments.