Forward Deployed AI Engineer
Quick Summary
Depending on the engagement, you'll design and develop custom AI applications, embed AI across a customer's SDLC, or build enterprise systems using AI tools that change how software is made.
Partner with customer engineering teams to understand technical constraints, gather requirements, and problem-solve together. You'll join customer calls to discuss tradeoffs, progress,
At HTEC, customers come to us with business problems they want to solve through AI: increasing revenue, reducing cost, transforming customer service, and modernizing how they build software or run operations. Your job is to turn these problems into robust AI solutions that deliver business value.
As a Forward Deployed AI Engineer, you'll play a leading role in building and shipping AI solutions for our customers. That might mean designing custom AI applications, embedding AI across a customer's software development lifecycle, or building enterprise systems faster and differently with the new generation of AI tooling. Whichever shape the work takes, you'll own it from understanding the customer's need to deploying in their environment.
Responsibilities
~1 min readRequirements
~1 min readYou're the AI engineer for a customer project—maybe automating workflows with AI agents, building an intelligent search system, or an AI-enabled delivery pipeline
Dive into high-priority technical work—building an evals suite, testing different model configurations, implementing a new feature, or redesigning the delivery process
Join meetings with the customer's CTO to discuss technical tradeoffs, progress, and timeline
Heads-down coding time to push forward the current sprint
Maybe join a prospective customer call to share your perspective on what's technically feasible
We're generally tech stack agnostic — we work in our customers' environments and codebases. Much of our work is in Python, but not exclusively. You'll become an expert at using various foundational models, building with tools like LangChain/LangSmith, and working with frameworks and tools for vector databases, evaluation, and monitoring.
Show, don’t only tell: Excellence is our standard, both in our code and in our language
Eat our own dogfood: We practice what we preach and use AI wherever possible
We are one team: Our people and relationships are our competitive advantage
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Listing Details
- Posted
- June 8, 2026
- First seen
- June 8, 2026
- Last seen
- June 8, 2026
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- Trust Level
- 52%
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- June 8, 2026
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