Webai
Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer
Washington D.C. Area, Remote. Posted 7 months ago
The role
You will transform prototype models into scalable, efficient, and reliable production systems. This role supports Public Sector initiatives by building and optimizing AI systems for secure and distributed environments.
What you will do
- Collaborate with customers to scope, deploy, and maintain AI solutions in production environments.
- Design, develop, and deploy agentic workflows to orchestrate multi-step reasoning, tool use, and decision-making.
- Debug and optimize data pipelines and AI systems running on customer networks.
- Translate complex, often ambiguous customer requirements into well-scoped technical solutions.
- Work across the stack from model inference on consumer hardware to infrastructure automation.
- Read hardware schematics/logs to identify performance bottlenecks and suggest improvements.
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor to enterprise clients.
- Contribute feedback and insight to internal teams to improve product robustness and usability.
Required qualifications
- 5+ years of combined experience in software engineering and machine learning.
- Active US Security clearance
- Proven track record of deploying and maintaining machine learning/AI systems in production.
- Strong expertise in ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX, JAX, etc.
- Experience debugging complex systems involving data pipelines, model inference, and hardware interaction.
- Exceptional communication skills.
- Comfortable working in dynamic environments with high customer exposure.
Nice to have
- Experience deploying models on edge devices or consumer hardware.
- Familiarity with distributed systems, DevOps tooling, and performance tuning.
- Prior experience in a customer-facing engineering role.
- Proficiency in developing full stack applications
- Knowledge of privacy-preserving AI and secure compute environments.
- Master’s degree in a relevant technical discipline.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and performance-based incentives
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits package
- High-deductible HSA option with company contribution
- 401k match (US-based only)
- Flexible PTO Policy
- Parental leave for eligible employees
- Continuing education support
- Basic, company-paid life insurance
- Supplemental life insurance
- Company-paid short and long term disability
- Free parking for in-office employees
About the company
webAI is a company that seeks individuals who exemplify truth, ownership, tenacity, and humility.