Staff AI Forward Deployed Engineer

About this role

About the Role

A large, fast-moving enterprise organization is seeking a Staff AI Forward Deployed Engineer to help accelerate practical AI adoption across the business.

This is a highly visible, hands-on role within an Enterprise Software Infrastructure organization. The engineer will serve as a go-to resource for evaluating AI opportunities, translating business needs into technical solutions, building prototypes and integrations, and coordinating delivery across business, product, engineering, infrastructure, data, governance, and executive teams.

*This is not an AI research, machine learning research, or foundation model development position.*

The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering and applied AI experience with exceptional communication, business judgment, and stakeholder-management skills. This person must be comfortable working directly with Directors, Vice Presidents, and C-level executives while remaining hands-on with coding, integrations, data, and AI tooling.

The role is approximately:

• 50% hands-on engineering, coding, integrations, data aggregation, and prototyping
• 50% stakeholder discovery, cross-functional leadership, prioritization, governance, and executive communication

What You Will Do: AI Solutioning and Engineering

• Meet directly with business and executive stakeholders to understand their workflows, challenges, data, and desired outcomes.
• Analyze ambiguous requests and identify the actual business problem behind the initial ask.
• Separate meaningful information from noise and determine which details are relevant to the solution.
• Evaluate whether AI is the right approach or whether a simpler technical solution would be more effective.
• Translate business problems into clear technical requirements, implementation plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Research emerging AI capabilities and determine how they can be applied safely and practically within an enterprise environment.
• Design and build AI...