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# Forward Deployed Engineer

- **Company:** Analog Devices
- **Location:** Carmel Valley, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $230,000.0 - $316,250.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Software Debugging, Python (Programming Language), Signal Processing, Large Language Models, Production Code, Machine Learning Operations, Data Pipelines, Automation Anywhere, Api Management
- **Published:** August 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.oriontalent.com/search-jobs/career/11648926/forward-deployed-engineer-california-ca-rio-robles

## About the Role

* BS/MS in CS, EE, or related; 10+ years building production software
 * Strong Python plus experience with data pipelines, APIs, and MLOps/AI workflows
 * Comfort deploying and debugging on-site in complex enterprise environments
 * Excellent communication; able to translate customer needs into architecture
 * Willingness to travel and embed with strategic clients

Preferred

Edge AI, LLM/agentic systems, or signal-processing background

Prior forward-deployed, field, or solutions-engineering experience

## Description

A hybrid software engineer and technical consultant who embeds within a strategic customer to implement, customize, and scale ADI's AI and edge technology into their real-world infrastructure., * Write production-grade code: custom data pipelines, API integrations, and MLOps/AI workflows

 * Embed on-site with clients, partnering across CSG, VBU, SDP, and Edge AI teams
 * Frame customer problems and own the architecture that solves them
 * Drive rapid iteration and field learning to deliver measurable customer outcomes
 * Produce reusable, ADI-owned assets that create defensible wedges


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