Forward Deployed Engineers/Architects

Job Title: Forward Deployed Engineers/Architects

Location: NYC, NY

Duration: 12 Months

Job Title: Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
Client: IBM
Location: New York, NY
Duration: 12 Months

EX Apple or Google

 Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) with strong expertise in AI/GenAI solutions, cloud architecture, data engineering, and enterprise application development. The ideal candidate will work directly with customers and business stakeholders to understand complex business challenges, translate requirements into technical solutions, and rapidly develop and deploy production-ready AI-powered applications.

The candidate should have hands-on experience building LLM-powered applications, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions, intelligent automation, data pipelines, and cloud-native systems using AWS and/or Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform).

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, data engineering, AI engineering, or related technical roles.
• Demonstrated experience in a customer-facing engineering role, translating ambiguous business requirements into working technical solutions.
• Strong hands-on programming experience in Python, Java, SQL, or similar languages.
• Experience building and deploying LLM-powered applications and Generative AI solutions.
• Strong understanding of RAG, prompt engineering, vector search, embeddings, and LLM application integration.
• Experience with AWS or Google Cloud Platform cloud platforms and their AI/ML services.
• Experience designing data pipelines, data processing workflows, and enterprise data integrations.
• Hands-on experience developing and integrating REST APIs and backend services.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, application scalability, and production support.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, stakeholder management, and technical presentation skills.