Senior Forward-Deployed AI Engineer (Hybrid)

Verizon; Basking Ridge (NJ); Hybrid; USD 137,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Industry-leading compensation

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Verizon is seeking a Distinguished Forward Deployed AI Engineer to embed directly into frontline business units. You will architect production-grade agentic systems, enterprise RAG engines, full-stack microservices, and decision systems into live operations.

You are a technical anchor who pairs systems craftsmanship with a product mindset, guiding governance and reusable SDKs while scaling architecture company-wide in a hybrid setup.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field; 4+ years of work experience.
• 8+ years shipping production software and deploying LLM-based workflows into production.
• Strong Python and modern TypeScript/Node.js proficiency for API integration and orchestration.
• Experience with Docker, cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure), and microservices.
• Proven ability to design offline/online evals, observability, and guardrail systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead full-stack architecture for embedded AI and agentic initiatives with multi-agent orchestration.
• Design state machines, governance, tool calling protocols, and deterministic fallbacks.
• Build production RAG pipelines, vector databases, and hybrid search strategies.
• Deploy production agent services to Domino, Airflow, Kubernetes, and cloud runtimes.

Skills

Python

TypeScript/Node.js

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)

LLMs / agentic frameworks

End-to-end architecture

Retrieval & context architectures

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Airflow

Domino Data Lab

SQL

Job description

Verizon is seeking a Distinguished Forward Deployed AI Engineer to embed directly into frontline business units. You will architect production-grade agentic systems, enterprise RAG engines, full-stack microservices, and decision systems into live operations.

You are a technical anchor who pairs systems craftsmanship with a product mindset, guiding governance and reusable SDKs while scaling architecture company-wide in a hybrid setup.