This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Director, Forward Deployed AI Engineering in the United States.
This is a high-impact leadership role at the intersection of AI engineering, product delivery, and enterprise transformation. You will lead a Forward Deployed AI engineering team responsible for designing and deploying AI-powered workflows across core business functions such as Sales, Marketing, Finance, Legal, HR, and Operations. The role blends deep technical execution with strategic leadership, requiring a hands-on approach to building, debugging, and shipping production AI systems. You will act as a player-coach, spending significant time embedded in delivery work while also guiding team direction, standards, and execution quality. In close partnership with platform and business stakeholders, you will ensure scalable, reliable AI solutions that directly improve operational efficiency and business outcomes. This environment is fast-moving, highly collaborative, and focused on turning AI innovation into measurable real-world impact.
Accountabilities:
Lead, build, and deliver AI-powered workflow transformation across enterprise functions while actively contributing as a hands-on engineer.
- Build and ship production AI systems alongside your team, including agent workflows, automation pipelines, integrations, and prompt optimization in live environments
- Define technical standards for production readiness, including evals, observability, testing, documentation, and deployment quality
- Lead, hire, and develop a team of Forward Deployed AI Solutions Engineers embedded across multiple business domains
- Establish clear success metrics for deployments (quality, throughput, cost, cycle time, human intervention rate) and ensure accountability
- Identify, prioritize, and shape AI/automation opportunities with business leaders, translating needs into executable roadmaps
- Own end-to-end deployment lifecycle from discovery through production and post-launch iteration, including platform handoff
- Partner with platform, IT, security, legal, and compliance teams to ensure scalable, secure, and governed AI systems
- Drive stakeholder alignment, change management, and adoption across enterprise functions while reporting impact and progress
Requirements
This role requires deep technical expertise combined with strong leadership and business partnership capabilities.
- Extensive hands-on experience building and deploying AI/LLM-based systems in production environments
- Strong understanding of agentic systems, including prompting, RAG, tool use, evaluation frameworks, and failure modes
- Proficiency with Python, APIs, SQL, CLIs, webhooks, and cloud-based infrastructure
- Experience integrating AI systems with enterprise tools such as CRM, ERP, and workflow platforms
- Proven ability to lead technical teams while remaining actively involved in engineering work
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to translate business goals into technical execution plans
- Excellent communication skills, capable of bridging technical and executive-level discussions
- Experience defining operational KPIs, deployment standards, and production governance practices
- Security- and compliance-aware mindset, including auditability, least privilege, and safe rollout practices
- Background in forward-deployed engineering, AI operations, or enterprise automation is highly valued
Benefits
- Competitive salary range: $186,700 – $233,400 USD (based on experience and location factors)
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage for employees and dependents
- Employee fertility, family planning, pregnancy, and bonding support benefits
- 401(k) retirement savings plan and commuter benefits
- Generous paid leave policies, including parental and bonding leave
- Employee referral programs and additional performance-based opportunities
- Free access to select diagnostic and health testing benefits for employees and families
- Fully remote work within the United States.