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# Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

- **Company:** IBM
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Application Integration Architecture, Cloud Computing, Computer Programming, Python (Programming Language), Large Language Models, Multi-Agent Systems, Pandas, Event Driven Architecture, Matplotlib, Scikit Learn, Api Design
- **Published:** August 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/D77C37160B75497DB99CF202EFAE4BD9/job/

## About the Role

* Drive AI Innovation: Pioneer innovative AI solutions, leveraging strong programming skills in Python and experience with AI frameworks, to solve complex business problems and drive cognitive computing advancements.

 * Optimize AI Systems: Guide the optimization of AI systems, ensuring effective usage of libraries such as SciKit Learn, Pandas, and Matplotlib, and familiarity with cloud platforms and related services.

Required technical and professional expertise

 * Demonstrated leadership of production agent deployments: orchestration architecture (multi-agent coordination, tool routing, state, retries, HITL), reliability, and scale

 * MCP architecture: designing MCP servers and tools as the integration backbone for agents

 * Output-evaluation frameworks owned at a leadership level: eval strategy, golden datasets, LLM-as-judge, regression/CI evals, guardrails, and production monitoring of agent quality

 * Expert Python; OpenAI API + Codex (or equivalent) / OpenAI Agents SDK; event-driven systems; workflow automation; observability/tracing

 * Integration architecture into enterprise systems of record

Preferred technical and professional experience

 * Experience defining org-wide standards for how agents are built and orchestrated

 * Track record taking agents from prototype to proven production operation

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.



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