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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Distinguished Forward Deployed AI Engineer - **Company:** Verizon Communications Inc. - **Location:** Temple Terrace, FL, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $137,000 - $263,000 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** LangGraph Framework, JavaScript (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Cursor, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Node.Js, OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, TypeScript, Enterprise Search, Pinecone, Cloud Platform System, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Large Language Models, Claude Code, Multi-Agent Systems, State Machines, Backend, Agentic-AI, Pgvector, Containerization, Material UI, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Low Latency, Embedded AI, Milvus, Claude, Text Summarization, Drift Detection, Api Design, Google Gemini, Serverless Computing, Docker, Microservices - **Published:** November 13, 2026 - **Apply:** https://jobs.localjobnetwork.com/apply/add/88858549/1 ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field or four or more years of work experience. * Eight or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training. * Extensive hands-on experience leveraging frontier LLMs (Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, Google Gemini) and agentic developer frameworks (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) to build scalable solutions and achieve core business milestones. * Eight or more years shipping production software and/or demonstrated experience deploying LLM applications, agentic workflows, or autonomous tool-calling pipelines into production. * Strong proficiency in Python and modern TypeScript/Node.js for full-stack API integration and backend orchestration. * Experience with containerized deployments (Docker), API design, and cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure). * Proven track record implementing both offline evaluation benchmarks and online evaluation/observability pipelines (latency, token costs, hallucination tracking, eval-driven development). * Deep expertise in retrieval and context architectures: designing production RAG pipelines, vector databases (e.g., pgvector, Milvus, Pinecone), hybrid search (dense + sparse/lexical), and dynamic context management. * Proven experience deploying containerized services and data workflows across enterprise platforms such as Domino Data Lab, Apache Airflow, Kubernetes (EKS/GKE), and hyperscaler cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure). * Advanced full-stack programming experience and mastery in Python, SQL, and modern JavaScript/TypeScript stacks. * Proven track record designing offline/online eval harnesses, guardrail frameworks, and observability systems (latency, token optimization, tracing). * Demonstrated ability to independently scope ambiguous technical initiatives and present architectural designs to senior executive stakeholders. * Demonstrated ability to interface directly with enterprise stakeholders, translate ambiguous business requirements into technical architectures, and lead project delivery end-to-end. Even better if you have one or more of the following: * Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related technical field. * Experience building and scaling centralized context platforms or enterprise search engines similar to Verizon's internal enterprise context layer platforms. * Prior forward-deployed engineering, solutions architecture, or technical consulting experience in top-tier technology firms or hyperscalers. * Record of turning one-off operational builds into enterprise-wide shared libraries, with associated technical publications or filed patents. * Domain knowledge in telecommunications, customer growth and retention, customer segmentation or large-scale customer care operations. ## Description As a Distinguished Forward Deployed AI Engineer within Verizon's Transformation Command Center (TCC), you will embed directly into the frontline of Verizon's core Business Units to solve our most critical, ambiguous, and high-stakes operational challenges. Operating with total technical ownership, you will architect, build, and deploy production-grade agentic systems, enterprise RAG engines, full-stack microservices, and decision systems into live operations. You are a technical anchor that leads in industry: you pair deep systems craftsmanship with a product mindset, cutting through operational ambiguity to design production architectures, implement custom orchestration layers (via LangGraph, Temporal, or custom state machines), and enforce context management strategies that scale into enterprise assets. Beyond shipping point solutions, you will run workloads reliably on Domino, Airflow, and Kubernetes, abstracting bespoke code into reusable SDKs, shared libraries, and architectural playbooks that scale company-wide. Responsibilities include: * End-to-End Architectural Blueprinting: Lead the design and definitions of the full-stack architecture for embedded AI and agentic initiatives, including multi-agent orchestration, state machines, latency/cost budgets, security boundaries, and enterprise back-end integrations. * Agentic Orchestration Engineering, Workflow Automation and Governance: Architect stateful agent workflows complying with established agentic governance rules, using tools like LangGraph, Temporal, or event-driven state machines, establishing strict protocols for tool calling, execution sandboxing, and deterministic fallback logic. * Context & Retrieval Systems: Lead the design of production RAG infrastructure incorporating hybrid search, re-ranking algorithms, metadata filtering, and semantic caching, directly informing and scaling Verizon's context architecture. * Runtime & Cloud Deployment: Deploy production agent services and scheduled workflows to target runtimes (e.g., Domino Data Lab, Apache Airflow, Kubernetes microservices, and serverless compute across AWS, GCP, or Azure). * Evaluation Harness Design: Architect offline and online evaluation frameworks (e.g., LLM-as-a-judge, synthetic test generation, human-in-the-loop review queues, live A/B rollouts) to measure model drift, context hallucination rates, and task completion metrics. * Platform Codification & IP Creation: Generalize custom domain deployments into reusable internal SDKs, API primitives, and modular UI components; mentor engineers across the organization and draft technical documentation for Verizon patent disclosures. * Strategic Discovery & Scoping: Embed alongside BU leadership to map intricate operational processes, cut through organizational noise, and isolate the highest-leverage intervention points where applied AI delivers measurable uplift. * Executive Translation: Serve as the technical authority in the room with BU Vice Presidents and Managing Directors, demystifying algorithmic behaviors, failure modes, and performance trade-offs., Where you'll be workingIn this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes working from home and a minimum of three days per week in the office, which will be set by your manager. Employees are responsible for maintaining compliance with hybrid work policies.