> Markdown version of [/jobs/ext/3464196-forward-deployed-engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/jobs/ext/3464196-forward-deployed-engineer). Every page supports `.md` or `Accept: text/markdown`. Links point to the HTML versions so they work for humans too. Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Forward Deployed Engineer - **Company:** Marlabs, Inc - **Location:** Alpharetta, GA, United States - **Contract:** Temporary contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Systems, WebSocket, Large Language Models, Backend, Api Design - **Published:** September 17, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/c99f46a0-b372-4bc1-ae27-651a2bc9ff0f ## About the Role Strong Forward Deployed AI Engineer experience. Demonstrated strength in API design, abstraction, contract-driven development, and defining clean boundaries between system components. Strong data-modeling and validation skills; experience representing business problems in clear, enforceable schemas. Practical understanding of how LLM-powered agents operate, including model interaction, tool selection and execution, the tool loop, context, state, and memory. Ability to reason about nondeterministic behavior and design solutions that can be evaluated, observed, and improved rather than merely confirming that an agent produces a response. Experience building or integrating backend services and distributed systems using patterns such as REST, RPC, WebSockets, or gRPC. Understanding of production concerns such as retries, timeouts, error handling, back pressure, and service reliability. Comfort working independently through ambiguity, asking the right questions, and making sound technical decisions without line-by-line direction. Ability to work in a fast-moving environment with continuous, sprint-level deliverables. Strong communication skills and sufficient professional polish to explain or demonstrate a solution to internal stakeholders and, when needed, clients. ## Related Videos - [API Design - Getting Started](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/33-api-design-getting-started) - [One AI API to Power Them All](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1601-one-ai-api-to-power-them-all) - [Developing the Backend with Stefan Lingler, CTO at Shpock](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100360-developing-the-backend-with-stefan-lingler-cto-at-shpock) - [Minimal infrastructure for Real‑Time Phone Agents: transcripts in, responses out](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1736-minimal-infrastructure-for-real-time-phone-agents-transcripts-in-responses-out) - [Rest API Antipatterns](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100208-rest-api-antipatterns) - [Agentic employees in world's most downloaded FinTech app](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100123-agentic-employees-in-world-s-most-downloaded-fintech-app) ## Related Articles - [What Are Large Language Models?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/304-what-are-large-language-models) - [Dev Digest 132 - Binging WADFlix?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/473-dev-digest-132-binging-wadflix) - [Dev Digest 210: AI Agents Are Go! Is MCP Dead? LLMs Crack Anonymity](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/709-dev-digest-210-ai-agents-are-go-is-mcp-dead-llms-crack-anonymity) - [Never delegate the understanding](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/749-never-delegate-the-understanding) - [MLOps And AI Driven Development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/82-mlops-and-ai-driven-development) - [ I Gave a Video Editor More Autonomy Than a Trading Bot. On Purpose.](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/773-i-gave-a-video-editor-more-autonomy-than-a-trading-bot-on-purpose)