Forward Deployed AI Engineer
About The Position
As a Forward Deployed AI Engineer at Transformworks, you will work directly with client executives, operators, and technical teams to turn high-value business problems into production AI systems. You will own the full journey: understanding workflows, defining what should be built, designing the technical approach, shipping systems, and improving them until they deliver measurable results. This is a hands-on engineering role involving production code, architecture decisions, and direct work with users. The role also calls for sound prioritization, clear client communication, and the ability to move engagements forward through ambiguity. You will work alongside the founders and senior engineers, with opportunities to take ownership of larger technical workstreams, lead client engagements, manage teams, and help shape how Transformworks delivers AI at scale.
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience building software or applied AI systems.
- Strong Python fundamentals and comfort working across APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure.
- Hands-on experience building with LLMs through professional work or substantive independent projects.
- Evidence of having shipped something real and ability to explain how it evolved after reaching users.
- Strong product and business judgment.
- Clear communication and comfort working directly with clients.
- A high degree of ownership and ability to make progress through ambiguity.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with agentic workflows, RAG, evaluation systems, TypeScript, React, or regulated industries.
Responsibilities
- Build and deploy AI agents, workflow automations, data pipelines, integrations, and internal applications.
- Work directly with clients to understand their operations, systems, and business objectives.
- Own technical workstreams from discovery through deployment, adoption, and iteration.
- Build evaluation, monitoring, and human-review systems that make AI reliable in production.
- Communicate technical decisions, progress, and tradeoffs to engineers, operators, and executives.
- Turn lessons from client engagements into reusable tools and engineering standards.
Benefits
- Highly competitive base compensation.
- Uncapped profit-sharing tied to team performance.
- Equity compensation.
- Health, dental, and vision coverage.
- Direct ownership of projects with visible operational and financial impact.
- Hands-on work with the latest AI models and tooling.
- A small, high-trust team where initiative and strong judgment are rewarded.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
