Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

The role

You will design and deploy agentic, AI-powered workflows directly with customers. You will build LLM-powered applications and integrate APIs, enterprise systems, and data platforms.

What you will do

• Build and deploy LLM-powered applications and multi-agent workflows in production environments.
• Design end-to-end solutions integrating APIs, enterprise systems, and data platforms.
• Partner directly with customers to translate business problems into scalable AI and RPA solutions.
• Own delivery from prototype to production and iteration.
• Optimize systems for performance, cost, and reliability.
• Extend platform functionality using APIs, SDKs, connectors, and custom integrations.
• Anticipate delivery risks, manage scope, and communicate blockers, tradeoffs, and timelines.
• Lead high-impact technical workstreams within strategic customer engagements.
• Contribute reusable patterns and influence product direction.
• Mentor engineers, raise technical standards, and help scale reusable implementation play books.

Required qualifications

• 5–8+ years of software engineering experience, including applied or customer-facing work.
• Strong coding skills in Python and/or TypeScript.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, and production AI systems.
• Experience building and deploying complex, integrated systems.
• Ability to operate in ambiguity and move quickly from idea to production.
• Strong communication skills with both engineers and business stakeholders.
• Customer-facing experience managing technical risks, timelines, tradeoffs, and stakeholder expectations.
• Ability to mentor engineers and contribute to reusable assets, technical standards, and delivery best practices.

Nice to have

• PhD or Master’s in Computer Science or a related field.
• Experience with agent frameworks, orchestration systems, or distributed systems.
• Familiarity with LLM providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, etc.
• Background in applied AI, machine learning, or automation platforms (UiPath, RPA, workflow engines).
• Experience in startup, consulting, or forward-deployed environments.
• Experience with prompt management, LLM evaluation, agent observability, and production support practices.
• Familiarity with enterprise security, governance, compliance, and operational readiness requirements.
• Experience presenting technical recommendations to senior customer stakeholders or executives.
• Experience contributing to reference architectures, reusable delivery patterns, or internal technical enablement.

About the company

UiPath believes in the transformative power of automation to change how the world works. They are committed to creating category-leading enterprise software.