Senior Forward-Deployed AI Engineer (RAG & Orchestration)

Cellco Partnership; Basking Ridge (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Verizon is seeking a Distinguished Forward Deployed AI Engineer to embed with frontline business units. You will architect and deploy production-grade agentic systems, enterprise RAG engines, and full-stack microservices into live operations, driving measurable business impact across multiple cloud runtimes.

You will lead in industry, pairing systems craftsmanship with a product mindset, and mentor engineers while drafting technical docs for patent disclosures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field or four+ years of work experience.
• Eight+ years of relevant experience.
• Extensive hands-on experience leveraging frontier LLMs and agentic frameworks to build scalable solutions.
• Eight+ years shipping production software and/or deploying LLM apps and agentic pipelines.
• Strong proficiency in Python and modern TypeScript/Node.js for full-stack API integrations.
• Experience with Docker and cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Proven track record implementing offline and online evaluation pipelines.
• Deep expertise in retrieval and context architectures for production RAG pipelines and vector databases.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end architectural blueprinting for embedded AI and agentic initiatives.
• Architect agentic orchestration and governance with tools like LangGraph/Temporal.
• Design production RAG infrastructure with hybrid search and metadata filtering.
• Deploy production agent services and workflows to runtimes like Kubernetes and cloud.
• Design evaluation frameworks to measure model drift and hallucinations.
• Create reusable SDKs, APIs, and architectural playbooks for Verizon patent disclosures.
• Collaborate with BU leadership to identify high-leverage AI interventions.
• Explain technical concepts to executives and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Python

TypeScript/Node.js

LLMs

Agentic workflows

APIs

Security boundaries

State machines

Retrieval & context

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

LangGraph

Temporal

Domino Data Lab

Kubernetes

Job description

Verizon is seeking a Distinguished Forward Deployed AI Engineer to embed with frontline business units. You will architect and deploy production-grade agentic systems, enterprise RAG engines, and full-stack microservices into live operations, driving measurable business impact across multiple cloud runtimes.

You will lead in industry, pairing systems craftsmanship with a product mindset, and mentor engineers while drafting technical docs for patent disclosures.