Forward Deployed AI Engineer
$200k - $250k • Los Angeles, California, United States
Posted 1d ago
Job Location
Los Angeles, California, United States
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Categories
AI Engineer
About the job
Turing's Enterprise AI unit operates with the speed and focus of a startup, building advanced AI solutions for leading enterprises. As a Forward-Deployed AI Engineer, you will be at the forefront of applied AI in the workplace, shaping how AI is integrated into critical business workflows. You will own outcomes end-to-end, from identifying high-value customer problems and shaping architecture to building production systems and collaborating directly with senior client leaders. This role involves developing generative AI solutions that drive measurable impact and ROI within large institutions, offering an intellectually challenging environment for those seeking difficult, high-impact work.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with customers to identify high-value opportunities and translate complex business needs into technical direction.
- Architect and build production AI systems, including multi-agent workflows, orchestration, tool use, context engineering, memory, state management, and RAG.
- Develop APIs, data pipelines, integrations, and distributed systems to ensure AI solutions are reliable at scale.
- Own the entire lifecycle of AI solutions from discovery through deployment and measurable impact.
- Manage and ensure the evaluation, observability, security, reliability, latency, scalability, and cost of AI systems.
- Create and refine processes and playbooks for AI deployment within enterprise environments.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building and operating sophisticated software systems.
- Expertise in Python, backend systems, APIs, databases, distributed systems, system design, and cloud infrastructure.
- Hands-on experience building production LLM and agent systems using orchestration, tool use, context engineering, memory, state management, retrieval, and multistep workflows.
- Proven track record of owning complex systems from architecture through deployment and scale.
- Practical understanding of evaluation, observability, reliability, security, guardrails, latency, scalability, and cost.
- Exceptional customer and technical leadership skills, including navigating ambiguity and communicating effectively with senior stakeholders.
- Ability to enter unfamiliar environments, earn trust quickly, and challenge assumptions constructively.
Benefits
- $200,000–$250,000 base salary
- Equity