AvePoint

Forward Deployed Engineer - AI

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Base Salary

$180k - $230k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead enterprise workshops on AI trust, governance, security posture, resilience, and operating models.
  • Identify valuable AI use cases and translate business requirements into technical scopes, architectures, delivery phases, estimates, and risk assessments.
  • Write deliverable statements of work for AI build and governance engagements.
  • Build prototypes and production AI components, including agent workflows, RAG pipelines, LLM integrations, MCP tool integrations, custom adapters, and local tooling.
  • Deliver governance and security controls for regulated, cloud-restricted, sovereign, and air-gapped environments.
  • Serve as the trusted technical advisor from initial workshop through go-live, including enablement, adoption support, and production troubleshooting.
  • Travel to client sites and operate with high autonomy in ambiguous engagements.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering, solutions architecture, or technical consulting.
  • At least 2 years of hands-on experience with modern AI/LLM systems in real projects.
  • Practical experience with LLM APIs, frameworks, RAG, agentic workflows, and tool or function calling.
  • Hands-on machine learning experience covering model development, evaluation, deployment, operationalization, predictive analytics, and scalable MLOps.
  • Strong programming skills in Python and/or C#/TypeScript.
  • Working fluency with at least one major cloud platform, including identity, networking, and data services.
  • Ability to scope technical projects from ambiguous requirements and produce credible plans with phases, estimates, and risks.
  • Excellent communication skills with senior executives, boards, technical teams, and platform engineers.
  • Knowledge of AI governance and compliance frameworks such as EU AI Act, NIS2, ISO/IEC 42001, NIST AI RMF, or Gartner AI TRiSM is a strong plus.
  • Experience with AI security topics, MCP, agent runtimes, vector databases, enterprise data governance, security, backup/resilience, Microsoft 365, multi-cloud environments, regulated industries, air-gapped or sovereign environments, or customer-facing engineering is preferred.
  • Additional languages relevant to regional clients are a plus.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $180,000-$230,000, with final offers based on location, experience, skills, and qualifications.
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
  • 401(k) with match.
  • Unlimited PTO.
  • Depending on the role, bonuses, commissions, or RSUs.
  • The role includes travel to client sites and customer-embedded work.

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