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# Forward Deployed Engineer

- **Company:** NICE Ltd.
- **Location:** Denver, CO, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $113,000 - $183,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Agentic-AI, Virtual Agents
- **Published:** November 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.builtincolorado.com/job/forward-deployed-engineer/12248236?handler=ApplyRedirect

## About the Role

* Hands-on experience building and operating end-to-end production systems at scale.
 * With a natural builder's mentality with high personal agency, you default to finding solutions and shipping them.
 * Startup founder or early engineer experience is highly valued, you understand the tradeoffs between speed, quality, and ownership.

 * Proven technical problem-solving ability, particularly in rapidly shifting, loosely defined environments.
 * Experience developing or operating AI/LLM-powered systems in production is a major plus.
 * Working knowledge of the current AI agent toolkit: evaluation frameworks, orchestration tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering.
 * Familiarity with React, TypeScript, and/or Go is an advantage.

 * At ease working face-to-face with customers to unpack their problems and deliver practical solutions.
 * Prior experience in customer-facing or externally-led technical roles is a plus.

 * A clear, direct communicator who can be equally persuasive with engineers and executives.
 * Comfortable operating in ambiguity and making forward progress without waiting for complete clarity.
 * Able to balance competing priorities and drive alignment across technical and business teams.

## Description

* Build AI agents that run in production at meaningful scale, not slideware or research exercises.
 * Work shoulder-to-shoulder with leaders at globally recognized enterprises and high-growth startups.
 * Directly influence the direction of NiCE's AI agent platform through the real problems you solve.
 * Operate with genuine autonomy and end-to-end ownership across the agent lifecycle.
 * Work at the cutting edge of AI agent development with access to the latest models, infrastructure, and research.