Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Avenera is an AI engineering and services company that partners with enterprise leaders on AI initiatives. They are seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to build and implement applied AI systems within client workflows, addressing ambiguous business problems and translating them into technical solutions.
Responsibilities
- Partner with clients to identify high-value AI use cases, clarify business workflows, and translate ambiguous needs into technical scope
- Design and build LLM-enabled tools: retrieval workflows, agentic automations, summarization, classification, human-in-the-loop review
- Work across data engineering: API discovery, data-source mapping, ETL/ELT planning, incremental load strategy, database access coordination
- Run AI readiness engagements: stakeholder interviews, workflow analysis, opportunity prioritization, roadmap development
- Support client-facing demos, sprint reviews, steering committee updates, and delivery planning
- Contribute to Avenera's internal AI operations, including our company-memory system, Slack/meeting-note ingestion, and agent-based workflow automation
- Move systems from 'AI idea' to usable implementation by identifying data dependencies, owners, success criteria, delivery risks, and next milestones
Skills
- 3–6+ years of hands-on experience shipping applied AI, data engineering, or software products
- Strong Python and comfort building and integrating LLM-based systems (prompt design, retrieval, agentic patterns, evaluation)
- Practical data engineering skills: APIs, ETL, working with messy real-world data sources
- Client-facing experience: able to run a discovery interview, translate what you heard into scope, and communicate progress to non-technical stakeholders
- Comfort with ambiguity; you can operate without a fully-specified problem
- Clear written and verbal communication
- Judgment about when to build custom vs. use an existing tool
- Experience building agentic workflow systems or internal AI platforms
- Experience with retrieval-augmented systems over real enterprise data (Slack, meeting notes, docs, tickets, etc.)
- Domain exposure to manufacturing, healthcare/life sciences, or professional services
- Familiarity with Databricks, AWS, and modern data stacks
- Consulting, agency, or forward-deployed engineering background
- Experience integrating with ClickUp, Slack, Google Workspace, or similar operational tools
Benefits
- Contract-to-hire with potential to evolve into a longer-term role
- Hands-on responsibility and autonomy from day one
- Close collaboration with Avenera's AI Strategist, AI Architect, and AI Solutions Architect
- Remote (US), with some client-facing travel possible
- Open to sponsoring work authorization for the right candidate
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