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# Forward Deployed AI Engineer

- **Company:** HTEC Group, Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cursor, Systems Development Life Cycle, Software Engineering, GitHub Copilot, Delivery Pipeline, Large Language Models, Claude Code, Llamaindex, Agentic-AI, Programming Languages
- **Published:** November 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/forward-deployed-ai-engineer--41f1bd36-790d-45d3-a56c-f7aec798eea3

## About the Role

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Revenue Growth, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Customer Support/Service, Cost Control, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Machine Tool, Software Design, Use Cases, Software Development, Strong engineering fundamentals: You write exceptional code and deeply care about the craft. You have 5+ years of experience building elegant, production-ready software across multiple programming languages.

Experience with Large Language Models: Track record building scalable applications with LLMs, using frameworks like LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar tools. You understand the practical challenges of deploying AI in production.

Proficiency with coding assistants: You are a builder and you know where and how to leverage AI tools like Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor and more.

Problem-solving mindset: You love solving hard, new problems. You're comfortable in self-teaching, asking "why," and experimenting to tackle challenges you haven't seen before.

Customer-facing skills: You can navigate customer conversations skillfully, understand their needs deeply, and translate those into technical solutions that actually work.

Startup mentality: You jump in without instruction, embrace a "no job too big, no job too small" mindset, and want to contribute to building something exceptional.

Collaborative approach: You're comfortable helping others and asking for help. You value integrity and want to build a culture of continuous learning.

## Description

* You're the AI engineer for a customer project-maybe automating workflows with AI agents, building an intelligent search system, or an AI-enabled delivery pipeline
 * Dive into high-priority technical work-building an evals suite, testing different model configurations, implementing a new feature, or redesigning the delivery process
 * Join meetings with the customer's CTO to discuss technical tradeoffs, progress, and timeline
 * Heads-down coding time to push forward the current sprint
 * Maybe join a prospective customer call to share your perspective on what's technically feasible