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# Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

- **Company:** Harnham Inc.
- **Location:** Washington, DC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $250,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Information Engineering, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, Commercial Software, Large Language Models, Model Validation, Reliability of Systems, Generative AI, Agentic-AI, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/2_173704909

## About the Role

* Strong commercial software engineering experience delivering complex production systems
 * Advanced Python development skills with a track record of technical ownership
 * Experience building and deploying LLM, generative AI, or machine learning applications
 * Strong understanding of data engineering, model evaluation, and scalable infrastructure
 * Experience working with cloud platforms and distributed systems
 * Ability to navigate ambiguity and solve challenging technical problems independently
 * Excellent communication xrbllit skills with the ability to engage a range of stakeholders
 * Experience operating within highly regulated or technically demanding environments is advantageous

## Description

As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, you will lead the design, development, and deployment of production-grade AI systems. You will work closely with stakeholders to understand complex requirements and translate them into scalable, reliable solutions., * Designing and deploying AI applications from prototype through to production

 * Building LLM-powered products, agentic workflows, and retrieval-augmented systems
 * Developing data pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and model improvement processes
 * Designing infrastructure to support experimentation, inference, deployment, and monitoring
 * Driving architectural decisions across business-critical projects
 * Collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions
 * Ensuring system reliability, scalability, security, and performance
 * Providing technical leadership and mentoring engineers across the team