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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Forward Deployed AI Engineer - **Company:** Buildertrend Solutions, Inc. - **Location:** Omaha, NE, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $250,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Architectural Patterns, Python (Programming Language), Salesforce.Com, Software Engineering, Workflow Management Systems, Buildertrend Software, Large Language Models, Multi-Agent Systems, Data Layers, AI Platforms, Kubernetes, Data Pipelines, Api Management, Databricks - **Published:** July 19, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=73a699c9dae6f306 ## About the Role * 5+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 2 years of experience designing and deploying production AI applications using modern LLM APIs and orchestration frameworks. * Demonstrated experience owning technical architecture and influencing engineering direction across multiple teams. * Experience with modern AI tooling such as OpenAI, Anthropic, LangGraph, MCP, vector databases, or similar technologies. * Prior experience at a B2B SaaS company is highly preferred. * Strong Python and/or JavaScript skills, with experience with API integrations, webhook design, and data pipeline architecture. * Experience designing and delivering multi-step AI systems. * Comfortable working across the GTM tech stack, including Salesforce, Gong, or similar, and ability to ramp quickly on new tools and become the technical owner for those systems and integrations. * Understanding of how sales and marketing funnels work, what revenue teams care about, and how to size and measure the impact of what you build. * Strong communicator who can present technical tradeoffs, architectural decisions, and build-vs-buy recommendations to VPs and senior leadership. * You're energized by ambiguous problems where there isn't an established playbook! ## Description As a Forward Deployed AI Engineer at Buildertrend, you are the founding engineer on our Central AI Enablement team. You'll define how AI is architected, deployed, and scaled across Buildertrend. You'll build the foundational AI platform and shared capabilities that enable Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Finance and People teams to operate more effectively. Unlike a traditional product engineering role, you'll focus on building Buildertrend's internal AI platform and capabilities, partnering directly with internal stakeholders and business leaders to solve high-impact operational challenges rather than shipping customer-facing product features. You'll have broad ownership of technical direction, establishing engineering standards and making foundational architectural decisions that shape how AI is built across Buildertrend. What you will do: * Own the technical architecture for Buildertrend's internal AI platform, designing reusable services, agentic systems, workflow orchestration, and AI capabilities that power teams across the GTM and G&A functions. * Establish the engineering standards for internal AI development, including architecture patterns, reusable components, evaluation frameworks, observability, governance, and deployment practices. * Architect the integration and data layer that connects Buildertrend's business tools, including Salesforce, Gong, Databricks, and others, into a scalable internal AI platform. * Lead technical evaluations and build-vs-buy decisions for AI platforms, frameworks, and tooling in partnership with the Director of AI Enablement. * Establish best practices for monitoring, evaluating, and continuously improving AI systems in production to ensure reliability, security, and business value. * Translate ambiguous business problems from non-technical partners into well-scoped technical solutions and drive them to completion independently. * Serve as the technical voice of the Central AI Enablement function in cross-functional conversations, including engineering leadership and business VPs. * Embrace using AI as a tool to enhance your work, while remaining open to learning, applying critical thinking, and owning the quality of your final work. ## Related Videos - [Agentic employees in world's most downloaded FinTech app](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100123-agentic-employees-in-world-s-most-downloaded-fintech-app) - [Why Your AI Agent Keeps Hallucinating Your Data: Building Deterministic Context Layers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2055-why-your-ai-agent-keeps-hallucinating-your-data-building-deterministic-context-layers) - [Cutting LLM Costs Without Cutting Quality: How to Beat Proprietary LLMs with Fine-Tuned Open Source](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100151-cutting-llm-costs-without-cutting-quality-how-to-beat-proprietary-llms-with-fine-tuned-open-source) - [Understanding Kubernetes in a visual way](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100085-understanding-kubernetes-in-a-visual-way) - [The Software Engineer 2030: From Coder To AI Orchestrator? - Patrick Schnell](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1825-the-software-engineer-2030-from-coder-to-ai-orchestrator-patrick-schnell) - [How to govern Vibe Coding for the Enterprise](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100290-how-to-govern-vibe-coding-for-the-enterprise) ## Related Articles - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [Best US AI Conferences for CTOs in 2026: Build vs. Buy, Vendor Evaluation, and Peer Intelligence](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/736-best-us-ai-conferences-for-ctos-in-2026-build-vs-buy-vendor-evaluation-and-peer-intelligence) - [What is Software Engineering in the Age of AI?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/640-what-is-software-engineering-in-the-age-of-ai) - [MLOps And AI Driven Development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/82-mlops-and-ai-driven-development) - [What is Agentic Programming and Why Should Developers Care?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/625-what-is-agentic-programming-and-why-should-developers-care)