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# Forward Deployed Engineer

- **Company:** Elios AI, LLC
- **Location:** Raleigh, NC, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Continuous Integration, Python (Programming Language), Data Logging, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Large Language Models, Agentic-AI
- **Published:** October 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.nettemps.com/us/en/W590414371DE1183189.ntap

## About the Role

* 4+ years writing production software, with Python as a primary language
 * Shipped at least one LLM-powered system to real users (agents, RAG, tool use, or structured extraction)
 * Comfortable with cloud deployment, APIs, and the unglamorous parts like auth, logging, and CI/CD
 * Working knowledge of how to evaluate LLM output, beyond eyeballing it

Client-Facing

 * Experience in a customer-facing technical role: consulting, solutions engineering, implementation, or a startup where you talked to users directly
 * You can run a meeting, write a clear status update, and push back on a bad requirement

Nice to Have

 * Experience with MCP, agent frameworks, or orchestration tooling
 * Background in a regulated industry such as healthcare, finance, energy, or government
 * You use AI tools daily in your own work and have opinions about which ones are worth it

## Description

We're hiring Forward Deployed Engineers to take AI from a promising prototype to something people use every day. You'll scope the problem with the client, write the code, connect it to their systems, and stay with it until it works in production.