Forward Deployed Engineer Specialist
$32,000–$54,900 year
On-siteAssago, Lombardy, Italy or Roma, Lombardia, Italian Republic
Job Summary
Embed directly with client engineering and business teams to deploy, scale, and operationalize AI platforms from major providers inside enterprise environments. Own production outcomes end-to-end, including time-to-value, reliability, adoption velocity, and scalability, moving from ambiguous business problems to working production systems through rapid experimentation. Design and govern AI architectures across the full enterprise stack, translating technical architecture into business impact for senior stakeholders to shape use case roadmaps and ROI backlogs. Build reusable patterns, playbooks, and accelerators that the client owns after you leave, while leading design workshops, proofs of concept, and code-with sessions.
Required Qualifications
- Demonstrable 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
- Demonstrable experience with AI platforms — OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, plus open-source models — including building abstraction layers to manage multi-provider pipelines
- Extensive and demonstrable experience of 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
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