Forward Deployed AI Engineer (Senior)

The role

You will scope, build, deploy, and measure agentic AI systems inside client environments like utilities, real estate, and logistics. You will work with client operators and executives to design solutions and integrate them into their existing cloud and toolchains.

What you will do

• Own client technical delivery end to end including discovery, design, build, deployment, and handover
• Build trust machinery including eval harnesses, replay loops, guardrails, and monitoring
• Extract structured facts from messy documents and build deterministic checks
• Optimize pipelines for cost and quality
• Design and ship high-stakes systems like after-hours voicemail triage
• Agree on and track measurement stories with clients using KPIs and baselines
• Maintain client-facing engineering presence through working sessions, demos, and POCs

Required qualifications

• 5 + years of full-stack delivery skills: Python/FastAPI backends, React/TypeScript front ends, deployment, monitoring, real test coverage, and careful data handling
• Experience shipping LLM/agentic systems to production users
• Technical toolkit including small task models, classical NLP, fine-tuning/distillation, deterministic rules, and caching
• Experience deploying inside client cloud, identity provider, repos, and compliance regime
• Strong stakeholder skills for running discovery and delivering executive readouts
• Comfort with ownership under ambiguity
• Practical fluency across Python (async/FastAPI/Pydantic), TypeScript/React, Postgres/pgvector, Redis, LLM provider APIs, RAG/hybrid retrieval, and agent frameworks
• Familiarity with enterprise deployment concerns: Docker, Terraform/Bicep, Azure and/or AWS, enterprise SSO (SAML/OIDC, Entra), and observability/cost tracking
• Track record with enterprise integrations (SharePoint, Salesforce, SAP/ERP-class systems)
• Bachelor's Degree

Nice to have

• Domain exposure to utilities, commercial real estate, or logistics
• Master's

Benefits

• Competitive early-stage startup compensation
• Bonus eligibility
• Health insurance with meaningful coverage for dependents
• Flexible paid time off
• Equity

Before you apply

• Must be willing to travel to Seattle area for final interview and travel 2x/year for company summits
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis
• We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas at this time
• Interview process includes a live two-hour technical session with our engineering team

About the company

AZX is a public benefit corporation founded in 2024 that works to accelerate positive impact in critical industries through AI transformation. They work on challenges in clean energy, decarbonization, climate risk, energy systems and global economics.