Cencora

Forward Deployed Engineer – Generative & Agentic AI

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4 days ago
Remote, United StatesSenior

Responsibilities

  • Embed with business units and stakeholder teams to understand workflows, data, and pain points.
  • Scope and ship Generative AI and Agentic AI proofs of concept, MVPs, and production features within days or weeks.
  • Build RAG pipelines, apply prompt engineering, and create evaluation frameworks to validate solution accuracy.
  • Design API-first integrations connecting AI capabilities to enterprise systems and workflows.
  • Translate ambiguous business needs into technical specifications and explain technical tradeoffs to executives and business stakeholders.
  • Lead stakeholder workshops, present progress, and proactively identify risks.
  • Support stabilization, adoption, and issue resolution after deployment.
  • Contribute reusable components, improvements, and lessons learned to the shared AI platform and toolkit.
  • Apply MLOps and LLMOps practices, including monitoring and model or agent lifecycle management, to maintain reliable production solutions.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, or a related field.
  • 8+ years of overall software engineering or IT experience.
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience building Generative AI or Agentic AI systems.
  • Strong expertise in Python and modern AI development frameworks.
  • Practical experience with LLMs and multiagent orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph, AutoGen, or Semantic Kernel.
  • Deep understanding of RAG architectures, vector databases, and embedding models.
  • Experience with at least one major cloud platform—Azure, AWS, or GCP—including native AI services.
  • Experience with MLOps or LLMOps, CI/CD, containerization, observability, and evaluation frameworks.
  • Ability to embed with business or customer teams, including onsite engagement as needed.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to lead workshops and present to executives and engineers.
  • Ability to own solutions end-to-end in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
  • Preferred experience in forward deployment, consulting, or solutions architecture.
  • Familiarity with Model Context Protocol and emerging AI agent ecosystems.
  • Experience building evaluations with Ragas, LangSmith, or custom harnesses.
  • Healthcare, finance, or government domain fluency and experience with healthcare distribution, specialty pharma data, or EMR/EHR systems is preferred.
  • Experience building reusable frameworks or components across multiple engagements is preferred.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision care.
  • Backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family-building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave may be available.
  • Training programs, professional development resources, mentorship programs, employee resource groups, and volunteer activities.
  • Full-time position with onsite engagement as needed.

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