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# Forward Deployed Engineer (Frontier AI)

- **Company:** Scalr, Inc.
- **Location:** Mundelein, IL, United States
- **Salary:** $220,000 - $350,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Software Debugging, Python (Programming Language), Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), Large Language Models, Machine Learning Operations
- **Published:** November 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/e8ba6966-6e5a-4396-b361-b91422acd2d4/forward-deployed-engineer-frontier-ai

## About the Role

* Experience in a hands-on, customer-facing technical role, whether as an FDE, Applied AI Engineer, Solutions Architect, ML Engineer or technical founder
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 * A track record of shipping production software, working directly with customers and deploying into their environments
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 * Strong Python skills. Comfortable building, debugging and maintaining production systems
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 * Good understanding of the LLM stack, including inference trade-offs, model serving and fine-tuning workflows
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 * Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure or GCP) and deploying models on GPUs
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 * Strong communication skills. Equally comfortable running discovery with a VP and debugging a latency issue with an ML engineer
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