Senior Forward-Deployed AI Engineer - Enterprise Ops

Verizon; Florida; Hybrid; USD 137,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

Paid holidays

Job summary

Verizon seeks a Distinguished Forward Deployed AI Engineer to embed with frontline business units, owning production-grade AI architectures and agentic systems. You’ll deploy multi-agent orchestration, RAG pipelines, and end-to-end workflows across cloud and on-prem environments.

You’ll lead design reviews with senior leaders, build reusable SDKs, and scale architectures enterprise-wide. Hybrid work location with strong emphasis on collaboration and measurable uplift.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field or 4+ years of work experience
• Eight+ years of relevant experience
• Hands-on with frontier LLMs and agentic frameworks to build scalable solutions
• Eight+ years shipping production software or deploying LLM apps/agentic workflows
• Proficiency in Python and modern JavaScript/TypeScript
• Experience with Docker, API design, and cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Proven offline/online eval and observability pipelines
• Expertise in retrieval and context architectures for production RAG pipelines

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end architectural blueprinting for embedded AI and agentic initiatives.
• Design stateful agent workflows with governance and deterministic fallback logic.
• Lead production RAG infrastructure including hybrid search and metadata filtering.
• Deploy production agent services and workflows to Domino, Airflow, Kubernetes, and cloud runtimes.
• Design offline/online evaluation harnesses to measure model drift and hallucination rates.
• Create reusable internal SDKs, APIs, and UI components and mentor engineers.
• Map complex processes with BU leadership to determine high-leverage AI interventions.
• Translate business requirements into technical architectures and lead delivery end-to-end

Skills

Python

TypeScript/Node.js

LLM frameworks

Architectural design

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Airflow

Domino Data Lab

LangGraph

Temporal

Vector databases (pgvector/Milvus/Pinecone)

Job description

Verizon seeks a Distinguished Forward Deployed AI Engineer to embed with frontline business units, owning production-grade AI architectures and agentic systems. You’ll deploy multi-agent orchestration, RAG pipelines, and end-to-end workflows across cloud and on-prem environments.

You’ll lead design reviews with senior leaders, build reusable SDKs, and scale architectures enterprise-wide. Hybrid work location with strong emphasis on collaboration and measurable uplift.