Forward-Deployed AI Engineer
Company: Bottom Line
Location: Chennai, Bengaluru
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-10-23
About this role
## Job highlights
- Requirements. Must Have
- Director of AI and Data,Enterprise Data Services (UK). Level: Individual Contributor (3-4 years experience).
- 3-4 years experience in data science,machine learning,or applied AI. Strong Python (pandas,scikit-learn,numpy),you think in DataFrames. SQL fluency,comfortable writing complex analytical queries,window functions,CTEs.
### Job Summary
Forward-Deployed AI Engineer
Location: India
Reports To: Snr. Director of AI and Data, Enterprise Data Services (UK)
Level: Individual Contributor (3-4 years experience)
Team: Enterprise Data Services - AI Engineering
Contract: Permanent, Full-Time
### Role Overview
Were looking for an Forward-Deployed AI Engineer (FDE) who can take a business problem and solve it natively in Snowflake - from feature engineering through model training to deployment as a live service. This is not a platform-building role. You wont be designing schemas or managing pipelines. Youll be the person who turns business questions into working AI solutions that run in production.
### What You Will Do
- Take business problems (e.g. churn risk, propensity to buy, anomaly detection, document intelligence) and design AI solutions using Snowflake-native capabilities
- Build and evaluate ML models using Snowflake ML Functions, Snowpark ML, and Cortex AI
- Design and implement Cortex Agents that combine structured data queries with unstructured document intelligence
- Create evaluation frameworks (golden datasets, LLM-as-judge, human review loops) to prove solutions meet success metrics
- Work with Cortex Analyst semantic views to enable natural language access to business data
- Build Cortex Search services over unstructured documents (contracts, support tickets, product docs etc.)
- Collaborate with AI and Data Engineers who handles platform infrastructure, you focus on the science, they handle the plumbing
- Present findings and recommendations to business stakeholders in plain language
- Contribute t...