Senior Forward-Deployed AI Engineer — Remote

Trida AI; Dallas (TX); Remote; USD 138,000 - 186,000; Full time

Job summary

Trida AI is seeking a senior Forward Deployed Engineer to join customer teams remotely in the United States. You will design, build, and ship production AI systems—agents, retrieval, and data integrations—and help customers deploy scalable solutions.

Travel may be required up to 50% depending on the engagement; you will mentor junior engineers and drive reusable architectures, ensuring long-term operational capability after engagement ends.

Qualifications

• 7+ years shipping production software for enterprise customers.
• Deep experience deploying AI/ML or data infrastructure on AWS/Azure/GCP with containers.
• Proven track record leading delivery with enterprise stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery end to end across a customer engagement, often as the senior engineer in the pod.
• Make scope, speed and quality trade-offs and own them with the customer.
• Become productive in a new customer codebase and architecture in days.
• Pair with customer engineers so capability stays after you roll off.
• Mentor Associate and mid-level FDEs, review designs and code across the pod.
• Turn one-off solutions into reference architectures and accelerators.

Skills

Production delivery

AI/ML deployment

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Kubernetes

Enterprise stakeholder leadership

Consultant-level communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Trida AI is seeking a senior Forward Deployed Engineer to join customer teams remotely in the United States. You will design, build, and ship production AI systems—agents, retrieval, and data integrations—and help customers deploy scalable solutions.

Travel may be required up to 50% depending on the engagement; you will mentor junior engineers and drive reusable architectures, ensuring long-term operational capability after engagement ends.