Senior Forward-Deployed Data & AI Engineer

United States Digital Space LLC; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 182,000 - 250,208; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to own architecture and deliver end-to-end data & AI solutions for customers. You will lead design decisions, implement production-grade systems, and work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and client teams.

The role requires 6+ years in data engineering or software engineering, proficiency in Python/Scala/JavaScript, and cloud experience across AWS/Azure/GCP, with Spark expertise. Travel up to 20% is expected.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics, or software engineering.
• Proficiency in Python, Scala, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience with two or more Cloud ecosystems (AWS/Azure/GCP) with expertise in at least one.
• Deep experience with distributed computing using Apache Spark and Spark internals.
• Familiarity with CI/CD for production deployments.
• Knowledge of MLOps, ML/AI models and AI APIs.
• Ability to design and deploy scalable production end-to-end data architectures.
• Experience delivering technical projects with scope, timelines and outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead production-grade solution delivery for customer projects, including architectures and data/ML pipelines.
• Guide transformational big data projects from design to deployment with customer input.
• Empower customers by guiding architecture choices and ensuring adoption of the platform.
• Own architecture decisions to ensure secure, scalable solutions aligned with customer needs and best practices.
• Collaborate with engineering, project management, architects, and customer teams to deliver engagements.
• Provide feedback to product/support teams to resolve issues and improve accelerators.
• Embed with customer teams to understand challenges from technical ICs to executives.
• Contribute reusable assets and best practices to scale impact across accounts.

Skills

Data engineering

Data platforms

Analytics

Software engineering

Python

Scala

JavaScript/TypeScript

Cloud (AWS)

Cloud (Azure)

Cloud (GCP)

Apache Spark

CI/CD

MLOps

ML/AI models

Architecture design

Documentation

Enterprise client work

Travel (20%)

Tools

Apache Spark

CI/CD tools

Cloud platforms

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to own architecture and deliver end-to-end data & AI solutions for customers. You will lead design decisions, implement production-grade systems, and work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and client teams.

The role requires 6+ years in data engineering or software engineering, proficiency in Python/Scala/JavaScript, and cloud experience across AWS/Azure/GCP, with Spark expertise. Travel up to 20% is expected.