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# Forward Deployed Engineer, AI

- **Company:** Nominal Inc
- **Location:** Austin, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Computer Engineering, Cursor, Python (Programming Language), Claude Code, Agentic-AI
- **Published:** October 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/forward-deployed-engineer-ai-austin-tx--acc75824-3c93-4233-9839-d4b732cfb21e

## About the Role

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Testing, Startup, United States Air Force (USAF), United States Navy (USN), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Apple, Telemetry, Campaigns, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agents

## Description

As an AI Forward Deployed Engineer, youll embed with hardware teams, build agentic workflows and skills on Nominal, and bring back the patterns that should become product.

What Youll Do:

 * Embed with hardware engineering teams at build-partner programs, on site and alongside them.
 * Build custom agentic workflows and skills for each partners programs that do real engineering work: turning requirements and test plans into checks, running analyses, and investigating issues.
 * Spot the patterns across customers and bring them back as product: new skills, agent capabilities, and eval tasks.
 * Win build partners by proving value: measured before-and-after results on real programs.
 * Be the technical voice of the customer inside the Hardware Intelligence team.

What youll bring:

 * 4+ years as a software engineer, with strong Python and data skills.
 * Hands-on experience building agentic workflows: tool use, prompting, skills, and checking whether they actually work.
 * Comfort in front of customers: you can run a working session with senior engineers and earn their trust.
 * A builders instinct for whats reusable and whats one-off.
 * Willingness to travel to customer sites.
 * You build with modern AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) every day, and stay curious and open to better ways of working. The tools keep changing, and so do we.

️ Nice to have:

 * Youve been a test, flight test, controls, or hardware engineer before moving into software.
 * Youve been a forward-deployed or solutions engineer at an AI or data company.
 * Youve turned a one-off customer build into a reusable product feature.
 * You hold an active security clearance, or can obtain one.