Verizon

Distinguished Forward Deployed AI Engineer

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Alpharetta, GA, USA +2 moreStaff+
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Base Salary

$137k - $263k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead full-stack architecture for embedded AI and agentic initiatives, including orchestration, state machines, latency and cost budgets, security boundaries, and enterprise backend integrations.
  • Architect governed, stateful agent workflows using LangGraph, Temporal, or event-driven state machines with tool-calling protocols, sandboxing, and deterministic fallbacks.
  • Design production RAG infrastructure with hybrid search, reranking, metadata filtering, semantic caching, and scalable context management.
  • Deploy agent services and scheduled workflows across Domino Data Lab, Apache Airflow, Kubernetes, serverless compute, and hyperscaler cloud environments.
  • Build offline and online evaluation frameworks covering synthetic tests, LLM-as-a-judge workflows, human review, A/B rollouts, drift, hallucination, latency, token costs, and task completion.
  • Convert domain-specific implementations into reusable SDKs, API primitives, shared libraries, UI components, and architectural playbooks.
  • Embed with business-unit leadership to discover high-value AI opportunities, scope ambiguous initiatives, and deliver projects end to end.
  • Present algorithmic behavior, failure modes, architecture, and performance trade-offs to vice presidents, managing directors, and other executive stakeholders.
  • Mentor engineers, document technical work, and contribute to Verizon patent disclosures.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or four or more years of work experience.
  • Eight or more years of relevant experience, including eight or more years shipping production software and/or deploying LLM applications, agentic workflows, or autonomous tool-calling pipelines into production.
  • Extensive hands-on experience with frontier LLMs including Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, and Google Gemini, plus agentic developer tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and modern TypeScript/Node.js for full-stack API integration and backend orchestration.
  • Experience with Docker, API design, and AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud environments.
  • Experience building offline evaluation benchmarks, online evaluation and observability pipelines, guardrails, tracing, and eval-driven development systems.
  • Deep expertise in production RAG pipelines, vector databases such as pgvector, Milvus, and Pinecone, hybrid search, and dynamic context management.
  • Experience deploying containerized services and data workflows across Domino Data Lab, Apache Airflow, Kubernetes, EKS/GKE, and hyperscaler environments.
  • Advanced full-stack programming experience with Python, SQL, and modern JavaScript/TypeScript stacks.
  • Ability to independently scope ambiguous technical initiatives, translate business requirements into architectures, lead delivery, and present to senior executives.
  • Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related field; centralized context or enterprise search experience; forward-deployed, solutions architecture, or technical consulting experience; experience creating enterprise shared libraries, publications, or patents; and telecommunications or customer operations domain knowledge.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement with a defined location, work from home, and a minimum of three days per week in the office.
  • Medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, AD&D, identity theft protection, pet insurance, and group home and auto insurance options.
  • Matched 401(k), up to eight company-paid holidays, up to six personal days, paid parental leave, adoption assistance, and tuition assistance.
  • New hires receive up to 15 vacation days per year, increasing with additional service.
  • Full-time scheduled workweek is 40 hours; compensation may include applicable premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, or holiday pay.
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About Verizon

10,000+ employees

Verizon builds and operates wireless networks, broadband (Fios), and enterprise connectivity, security, and IoT solutions for consumers, businesses, and public-sector customers. Its revenue comes from subscription mobile services, internet and TV access, and managed network and cloud security offerings. Founded in 2000 via the Bell Atlantic–GTE merger, the public company (NYSE: VZ) is headquartered in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, and is one of the largest mobile carriers in the United States.

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