Senior Forward-Deployed AI & Data Engineer

Climb; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

MacBook Pro

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Remote-first work environment

Professional development budget

Conference attendance

Job summary

Climb is seeking Senior Forward Deployed Engineers to own complete workstreams within client engagements, turning ambiguous business problems into production systems—from discovery through delivery and handoff. You will be the technical owner for your workstream, making design decisions and driving delivery with strong execution and early risk identification.

Our engagements build production data platforms, AI applications, intelligent agents, and analytics systems, mostly on Databricks, but

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering or technical delivery experience, with meaningful time in embedded or client-facing contexts.
• Hands-on depth in one or more of: LLM application development, cloud-native architecture (AWS, Azure, or GCP), backend systems at scale, or production data engineering.
• Demonstrated ability to make independent technical decisions and own delivery quality inside a client environment.
• Strong communicator: technically precise with engineers and executive leadership, able to adjust depth without losing accuracy.
• High tolerance for ambiguity; consistently delivers value before every requirement is defined.

Responsibilities

• Own the workstreams and components you are responsible for, from design through production, inside the client's environment.
• Participate in discovery, architecture reviews, and stakeholder interviews on your area of the engagement; turn vague problems into scoped, deliverable work.
• Make the build and design decisions appropriate to the client's environment and constraints on the work you own, and stand behind them.
• Build the system: production data pipelines, LLM applications, agents, and workflow automations that meet spec and hold up under real load.
• Manage scope actively on your workstreams: surface risk and creep before it becomes a problem, not after.
• Transfer capability that lasts: documented, runnable, maintainable software that works after you leave.
• Build trusted relationships with client stakeholders while supporting the Architect or AI Lead in overall account ownership.
• Contribute reusable patterns and lessons learned that improve future delivery.

Skills

LLM app development

Cloud-native architecture

Backend systems at scale

Production data engineering

Delivery ownership

Strong communicator

Tools

Databricks

Job description

Climb is seeking Senior Forward Deployed Engineers to own complete workstreams within client engagements, turning ambiguous business problems into production systems—from discovery through delivery and handoff. You will be the technical owner for your workstream, making design decisions and driving delivery with strong execution and early risk identification.

Our engagements build production data platforms, AI applications, intelligent agents, and analytics systems, mostly on Databricks, but