AvePoint

Forward Deployed Engineer - AI

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2 days ago
Jersey City, NJ, USASenior

Base Salary

$180k - $230k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead client workshops on AI trust, governance, security posture, resilience, AI inventories, approval workflows, risk classification, and audit evidence.
  • Guide clients on obligations and operating models related to the EU AI Act, NIS2, and ISO 42001.
  • Identify valuable AI use cases and translate ambiguous business requirements into architectures, data and integration requirements, delivery phases, estimates, and risk assessments.
  • Write statements of work that engineering teams can deliver and clients can approve.
  • Build prototypes and production components for agent workflows, RAG pipelines, LLM integrations, MCP-based tools, governance controls, and security controls.
  • Deliver custom adapters and local tooling for regulated, cloud-restricted, sovereign, or air-gapped environments.
  • Own client engagements from discovery through go-live, including enablement, adoption support, production troubleshooting, and identifying additional value.
  • Travel to client sites and operate with high autonomy in ambiguous, fast-moving engagements.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering, solutions architecture, or technical consulting, including at least 2 years of hands-on experience with modern AI/LLM systems in real projects.
  • Hands-on experience building with LLM APIs and frameworks such as Azure OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex, LangChain, or Semantic Kernel, using RAG, agentic workflows, and tool or function calling.
  • Machine learning experience covering model development, evaluation, deployment, operationalization, predictive analytics, enterprise AI solutions, and scalable MLOps practices.
  • Strong programming skills in Python and/or C#, TypeScript, plus working fluency with Azure, AWS, or GCP, including identity, networking, and data services.
  • Ability to run requirements workshops, challenge assumptions, and create credible project plans with phases, estimates, and risks.
  • Excellent communication skills with senior stakeholders, technical teams, executives, and board-level audiences.
  • Working knowledge of AI governance and compliance frameworks such as the EU AI Act, NIS2, ISO/IEC 42001, NIST AI RMF, or Gartner's AI TRiSM model is a strong plus.
  • Experience with AI security topics, including prompt injection, data leakage, agent permissioning, and model and data security posture, is a strong plus.
  • Familiarity with Model Context Protocol, agent runtimes, or vector databases such as Pinecone, Milvus, Weaviate, or Chroma is a strong plus.
  • Background in enterprise data governance, security, backup/resilience, or the Microsoft 365 and multi-cloud ecosystem is a strong plus.
  • Experience delivering to regulated industries or air-gapped and sovereign environments, prior forward-deployed or customer-facing engineering experience, and relevant regional language skills are additional advantages.

Benefits

  • Base salary range is $180,000-$230,000, with medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with match, and unlimited PTO.
  • Depending on the role, total rewards may also include bonuses, commissions, or RSUs.
  • The role includes travel to client sites and embedded delivery within client organizations.

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About AvePoint

1,001-5,000 employees
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