Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Exadel is an AI-first global technology company that partners with enterprise leaders on AI platforms and digital transformation. The Forward Deployed Engineer embeds with clients to discover business opportunities, build and deploy production-grade AI agents and applications, and coordinate delivery across technical teams. Senior engineers additionally lead executive discovery, direct pod execution, mentor other engineers, and take accountability for engagement outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Embed within client environments, working onsite with the people performing the work and the executives sponsoring it
- Lead discovery sessions to understand the client’s business, systems, data, operating model, and underlying challenges
- Translate ambiguous business problems into prioritized and quantified opportunity maps, supported by clear baselines and accountable client owners
- Identify which opportunities are genuinely worth pursuing and advise against initiatives that do not provide sufficient business value
- Build trust in the client’s data and deliver working, data-grounded prototypes within the first weeks of an engagement
- Design, develop, debug, and deploy production-grade AI agents, integrations, data pipelines, and applications within client systems
- Remain hands-on in the code whenever technical progress or delivery outcomes depend on it
- Define evaluation frameworks, quality thresholds, regression gates, and monitoring strategies for AI and agentic systems
- Monitor model and data drift and design effective human-in-the-loop controls for high-impact workflows
- Scope, sequence, and coordinate delivery across engineers, architects, and specialist contributors
- Make explicit trade-offs between scope, delivery speed, quality, and business value
- Orchestrate Exadel Colleague to accelerate delivery and scale successful implementation patterns
- Convert successful deployments into reusable reference architectures, agent templates, integration blueprints, evaluation frameworks, and delivery playbooks
- Produce clear technical documentation, operational runbooks, and knowledge-transfer materials
- Train client teams to independently operate, maintain, and extend delivered solutions
- For Senior FDEs, independently lead executive discovery, direct pod execution, and take full accountability for engagement outcomes
- For Senior FDEs, mentor other Forward Deployed Engineers and ensure reusable delivery patterns are incorporated into Exadel Colleague
Skills
- Mid-level hands-on technical experience, including client-facing capacity
- For the Senior Forward Deployed Engineer level, senior-level experience, including technical delivery leadership across multidisciplinary teams or pods
- A demonstrated record of delivering production software used by real users and business teams
- Practical experience designing, deploying, and debugging LLM-backed or agentic systems in production
- Advanced proficiency in Python, along with experience using TypeScript or JavaScript and SQL
- Strong knowledge of prompt and context engineering, agent architecture, tool and function calling, and retrieval-augmented generation
- Experience with Model Context Protocol servers, sub-agents, skills, and agent development frameworks such as the OpenAI Agents SDK or Claude SDKs
- Experience designing evaluation harnesses, quality thresholds, regression gates, drift monitoring, and observability for non-deterministic systems
- Understanding of human-in-the-loop control design and where human review should remain within automated workflows
- Experience with data modeling, domain ontologies, ETL or ELT pipelines, relational databases, vector stores, and embedding pipelines
- Experience building and deploying solutions on AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, serverless architectures, and enterprise deployment patterns
- Experience integrating with REST or GraphQL APIs, webhooks, event-streaming platforms, identity systems, and SSO
- High agency and sound judgment when working through ambiguity, incomplete information, and evolving client requirements
- Demonstrated ability to become credible and productive quickly within unfamiliar industries and business domains
- A habit of clarifying the problem, identifying constraints, and explicitly stating assumptions before developing a solution
- The ability to communicate effectively with both executive and technical audiences
- Strong technical writing skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts clearly and precisely
- Commercial judgment and the ability to connect technical decisions to measurable business value
- Strong analytical and mathematical rigor when working with incomplete, inconsistent, or unstructured data
- Fluent English communication skills
- Willingness to travel approximately 25–50% and work onsite in client environments
- Location Eligibility: This role is open to candidates residing in the United States
- Java, C#, or C++ within legacy enterprise environments
- Node.js, React, or Next.js for client-facing applications
- Fine-tuning fundamentals and multi-agent orchestration
- TDD or BDD practices
- Large-scale data processing platforms such as Spark, Databricks, or Snowflake
- PostgreSQL, MySQL, or comparable relational databases
- On-premises, sovereign, or restricted-cloud deployment models
- Enterprise systems such as Jira, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, Salesforce, or SAP
- GitHub or GitLab-based delivery workflows
- A university degree is preferred but not required
Benefits
- Eligibility for commission, bonus, or other incentive compensation where applicable.
- US-based employees are eligible to participate in Exadel’s benefits programs, which may include comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage; life and disability insurance; retirement savings programs; paid time off; paid holidays; and other wellness or voluntary benefit programs, subject to plan terms and eligibility requirements.
- International projects
- In-office, hybrid, or remote flexibility
- Medical healthcare
- Recognition program
- Ongoing learning & reimbursement
- Well-being program
- Team events & local benefits
- Sports compensation
- Referral bonuses
- Top-tier equipment provision
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