Forward Deployed Engineer

San Jose, CA, US • Posted 13 hours ago • Updated 13 hours ago
Contract Independent
Contract W2
12 Months
Travel Required
On-site
Depends on Experience
Fitment

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Skills

  • BigQuery
  • SQL
  • Python
  • Java
  • GCP
  • LLMs
  • Forward
  • ETL
  • shifting priorities
  • firefighting
  • Production
  • OpenAI
  • MCP
  • RAG

Summary

Hiring !!!

Greetings from Modern Agile Technologies.

Position: Forward Deployed Engineer — Data Engineering & GenAI

Location: San Jose, CA (Onsite)

Type:       Contract

 

Note: please share the candidate’s availability for an interview next week with overlapping IST working hours.

 

Job Description:

  • 8+ years of data engineering or software engineering experience, ideally with large-scale financial or transactional data
  • Strong SQL skills, with hands-on BigQuery (or equivalent modern data warehouse) experience
  • Proficiency in Python and/or Java for pipeline development and automation
  • Experience with Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, Cloud Composer/Airflow, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, or equivalents)
  • Hands-on experience building with LLMs — prompt engineering, function/tool calling, or RAG pipelines
  • Understanding of ETL/ELT design, data modeling, and performance tuning at scale
  • Excellent communication skills — able to translate ambiguous business asks into concrete technical specs (data or AI-based)
  • Comfort working directly with non-technical stakeholders (ops, compliance, finance) and adapting quickly to their domain
  • High tolerance for ambiguity, shifting priorities, and production firefighting

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience building with Claude, OpenAI, or similar LLM APIs in production or internal-tool contexts
  • Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol) — building or configuring MCP servers/skills that connect LLMs to internal tools
  • Experience with vector databases and embedding-based search for RAG applications
  • Experience with financial reconciliation logic (PDA/CASH/VDA/SDA-type matching, or equivalent)
  • Prior exposure to AI adoption/usage analytics, cost monitoring, or slot/performance optimization at scale
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  • Dice Id: 91131370
  • Position Id: 9035440
  • Posted 13 hours ago
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