Senior Forward-Deployed AI Engineer - Hybrid, Equity

Harnham; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity participation programme

Healthcare support

Retirement savings plan

Paid time off

Hybrid working environment

Exposure to cutting-edge AI/ML tech

Significant ownership and progression

Job summary

Harnham in Washington, DC is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to lead the design, development, and deployment of production-grade AI systems across AI, infrastructure, and product delivery.

You will own critical technologies, build LLM-powered products, and mentor engineers while collaborating with stakeholders to translate complex requirements into scalable, reliable solutions in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial software engineering experience delivering complex production systems.
• Advanced Python development skills with a track record of technical ownership.
• Experience building and deploying LLM, generative AI, or machine learning applications.
• Strong understanding of data engineering, model evaluation, and scalable infrastructure.
• Experience working with cloud platforms and distributed systems.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and solve challenging technical problems independently.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage a range of stakeholders.
• Experience operating within highly regulated or technically demanding environments is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Designing and deploying AI applications from prototype through to production.
• Building LLM-powered products, agentic workflows, and retrieval-augmented systems.
• Developing data pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and model improvement processes.
• Designing infrastructure to support experimentation, inference, deployment, and monitoring.
• Driving architectural decisions across business-critical projects.
• Collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions.
• Ensuring system reliability, scalability, security, and performance.
• Providing technical leadership and mentoring engineers across the team.

Job description

Harnham in Washington, DC is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to lead the design, development, and deployment of production-grade AI systems across AI, infrastructure, and product delivery.

You will own critical technologies, build LLM-powered products, and mentor engineers while collaborating with stakeholders to translate complex requirements into scalable, reliable solutions in a hybrid work environment.