Lead AI Engineer 2026 - US, COL, UK

About the Role:

• As a Forward Deployed AI Engineer, you will work directly with clients to design, build, deploy, and scale enterprise AI solutions.
• You will combine strong software engineering fundamentals with modern AI technologies to deliver production-ready systems.

What You Will Do:

• Design, build, and deploy production AI applications, copilots, retrieval systems, and agentic workflows.
• Develop backend services, APIs, and application architectures that integrate AI capabilities into enterprise systems.
• Deploy AI solutions into production with appropriate security, observability, monitoring, evaluation, and governance.

What We Are Looking For:

• You have 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building production applications.
• You have experience building scalable backend systems, APIs, or distributed applications.
• You are comfortable moving between software engineering, AI application development, cloud architecture, and client collaboration.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with production APIs using frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, Spring Boot, .NET, and Express.
• Experience building multi-agent systems, AI agents, semantic search, vector databases, or knowledge graph retrieval applications.
• Consulting experience or experience working directly with enterprise customers.