Forward Deployed AI Engineer

IFSItasca, IL
$150,000 - $180,000Remote

About The Position

As a Forward Deployed AI Engineer, you’ll work directly with enterprise customers to deliver custom, production-ready AI solutions that solve real-world problems. You’ll lead the design and deployment of intelligent agents across customer workflows—owning everything from discovery and prototyping to configuration, testing, and launch. This is a fast-paced, hands-on role that combines engineering, customer collaboration, and applied AI. You will serve as a critical link between our product and the customer’s needs—ensuring rapid value delivery and laying the foundation for long-term success.

Requirements

  • 2–5 years of experience in a software engineering, solutions engineering, or ML deployment role
  • Proficiency in Python and working knowledge of AI/ML frameworks (e.g. OpenAI, Hugging Face, LangChain, Pinecone, Weaviate, etc.)
  • Familiarity with building LLM applications, RAG systems, or conversational AI workflows
  • Experience integrating with enterprise systems via APIs or middleware (e.g. Salesforce, ServiceNow, SAP, Oracle)
  • Ability to translate business problems into technical solutions—and deliver them fast
  • Strong interpersonal skills; you’re just as comfortable on a whiteboard with a customer as you are in code
  • Bias toward action, ownership, and continuous learning in dynamic environments

Nice To Haves

  • Background in SaaS, customer experience, support operations, or manufacturing systems
  • Experience deploying AI in mission-critical environments
  • Prior work with enterprise AI platforms or multi-agent orchestration

Responsibilities

  • Partner with enterprise customers to scope and implement AI Agent use cases across complex workflows
  • Integrate IFS Loops platform with customer systems
  • Tune agent behavior and logic to deliver measurable outcomes (e.g., lower costs, increase in efficiency, fewer errors)
  • Troubleshoot deployments and iterate quickly to ensure performance, accuracy, and user adoption
  • Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to feed customer insights into the roadmap
  • Document technical decisions and hand off stable deployments to customer engineering or support teams

Benefits

  • Flexible paid time off, including sick and holiday
  • Medical, dental, & vision insurance
  • 401K with Company contribution
  • Flexible spending accounts
  • Life insurance and disability benefits
  • Tuition assistance
  • Community involvement and volunteering events
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