Forward Deployed AI Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Virginia.

📋 Description

• Collaborate directly with clients, technical leads, and cross-functional delivery teams to transform complex business and mission requirements into effective AI solutions.

• Rapidly prototype, construct, integrate, test, deploy, and enhance generative and agentic AI solutions within real-world enterprise settings.

• Convert business, mission, and user needs into technical designs, prototypes, and operational solutions.

• Design and create AI applications utilizing large language models, APIs, developer tools, enterprise data, and contemporary application development methodologies.

• Develop solutions involving MCP, A2A, multi-agent systems, RAG, tool utilization, structured output, context management, orchestration, and human-in-the-loop approaches.

• Establish and uphold integrations with enterprise systems, services, APIs, databases, data sources, and workflow tools.

• Assist in testing, assessment, logging, monitoring, and troubleshooting AI-enabled applications and processes.

• Engage in client discovery sessions, technical working groups, demonstrations, solution design discussions, code reviews, and technical design evaluations.

• Collect and integrate client and user feedback into the design and implementation of solutions.

• Diagnose technical challenges and assess emerging AI technologies to meet client requirements.

• Collaborate with senior Forward Deployed Engineers and technical leaders to enhance FDE skills and delivery methodologies.

• Provide reusable code, technical patterns, accelerators, documentation, lessons learned, and foster knowledge sharing.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Federal Public Trust; approved adjudication is required before onboarding.

• A minimum of three (3+) years of relevant work experience.

• Background in software engineering, AI/ML engineering, data engineering, solution engineering, or a similar technical role.

• Experience in forward deployed engineering or a comparable client-facing technical delivery role.

• Practical experience in developing generative AI, large language models, or agentic AI solutions.

• Hands-on experience with Claude APIs, Claude for Enterprise, Claude Code, tool usage, Custom Skills, or similar enterprise LLM platforms and development tools.

• Hands-on experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP).

• Familiarity with agent-to-agent (A2A) or multi-agent solution frameworks.

• Practical experience in building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) solutions, including retrieval, embeddings, vector search, and grounding.

• Experience in developing agentic workflows that incorporate tool usage, structured outputs, context management, orchestration, and human-in-the-loop patterns.

• Strong software development skills with modern programming languages, APIs, services, and application development frameworks.

• Experience in integrating applications with APIs, databases, data sources, or enterprise systems.

• Knowledge of source control, testing, debugging, code review, documentation, and sustainable code development.

• Excellent client communication and interpersonal abilities.

• Capability to work with clients and multidisciplinary teams in dynamic or uncertain environments.

• Curiosity, innovative thinking, creative problem-solving skills, and the capacity to quickly learn new technologies.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• US Citizenship is contractually mandated.

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution (preferred but not mandatory).

• Preferred experience in forward deployed engineering, Claude-based solutions, Anthropic Academy coursework or certifications, Anthropic partner training, end-to-end agentic AI applications, generative AI testing and evaluation, relational/vector databases, data modeling, cloud environments, AI safety/security/privacy/governance, observability, federal or regulated enterprise contexts, and healthcare or life sciences technology delivery.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance.

• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays.

• Position may qualify for a discretionary variable incentive bonus.

• Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance.

• 401(k) Retirement Plan.

• Basic Life & Supplemental Life Insurance.

• Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts.

• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability.

• Student Loan PayDown assistance.

• Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities.

• Skills Development & Certifications.

• Employee Referral Program.

• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach initiatives.

• Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program.

• Mobility Stipend.

• Flexible benefits package.