Senior Frontier GenAI FDE Lead Engineer

Deloitte France; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 189,000 - 373,000; Full time

Job summary

Deloitte is seeking a Lead Frontier GenAI FDE to lead forward-deployed engineering pods delivering GenAI solutions for strategic clients. You will set technical direction, remove blockers, and stay hands-on while guiding teams across architecture, data pipelines, and platform integrations.

You will translate complex client needs into actionable AI solutions, influence executive sponsors, and ensure high-quality, scalable deployments across hybrid onshore/offshore environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Data Science or Engineering.
• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, data science, or analytics engineering.
• 1+ years of hands-on GenAI/LLM-powered solutions in client or production environments.
• 1+ years leading project workstreams and translating business problems into AI solutions.
• 1+ years building reliable, maintainable, and well-documented code.
• Ability to travel ~50% on average.

Responsibilities

• Serve as senior client-facing engineering partner for product, data, and platform leaders.
• Lead executive-level discovery, define success metrics and phased plans from prototype to production.
• Lead FDE pods of 2-5 engineers, manage delivery health, and enforce sprint cadences.
• Architect and oversee delivery of LL Мин AI solutions, including copilots and vector search.

Skills

Software engineering

Data engineering

GenAI/LLM experience

Leadership

Cloud platforms

Coding best practices

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Anthropic

Google Cloud

OpenAI GPT

Job description

Deloitte is seeking a Lead Frontier GenAI FDE to lead forward-deployed engineering pods delivering GenAI solutions for strategic clients. You will set technical direction, remove blockers, and stay hands-on while guiding teams across architecture, data pipelines, and platform integrations.

You will translate complex client needs into actionable AI solutions, influence executive sponsors, and ensure high-quality, scalable deployments across hybrid onshore/offshore environments.