Forward Deployed Engineer
On-siteDublin, Leinster, Ireland
Job Summary
Embed directly with client engineering and business teams to deploy, scale, and operationalize AI platforms from providers like Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, SAP, or Palantir inside enterprise environments. Own production outcomes end-to-end: time-to-value, reliability, adoption velocity, and scalability, with business metrics attached. Move from ambiguous business problems to working production systems through rapid experimentation, designing and governing AI architectures across the full enterprise stack. Translate technical architecture into business impact for client CTO, CFO, and CISO, shaping use case roadmaps and AI adoption strategy. Build reusable patterns, playbooks, and accelerators that the client owns after you leave. Lead design workshops, proofs of concept, architecture walkthroughs, and code-with sessions with client engineering and leadership teams. This role defines the execution spine of the largest Forward Deployed Engineering capability in the services industry, focusing on the hardest enterprise AI problems across every industry.
Required Qualifications
- Engineering experience with cloud-native systems (APIs, microservices, containerization, serverless)
- Deep expertise in designing and deploying agentic solutions (agents, orchestration, context engineering, RAG, workflows) in production environments
- Experience with AI platforms — OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, plus open-source models — including building abstraction layers to manage multi-provider pipelines
- Experience deploying to production, CI/CD, infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm), monitoring, and debugging
- Demonstrated end-to-end delivery ownership in a client-embedded environment, internal projects, vendor labs, or team-only deployments do not qualify
- Proven ability to articulate business value: can quantify the impact of deployments in terms a CFO would recognize and act on
- Experience presenting to and building trust with senior client stakeholders, CTO, CFO, or CISO level
- Non-linear profiles are expected and welcomed, assessment is based on demonstrated deployment experience and outcome ownership, not CV pattern matching
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