Verizon

Principal Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Verizon
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3 days ago
Alpharetta, GA, USA +3 moreStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$121k - $231k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Research and apply statistics, machine learning, forecasting, prioritization, optimization, and impact-measurement methods to capital-planning problems.
  • Define full-stack architectures for embedded AI initiatives, including multi-agent orchestration, state machines, latency and cost budgets, security boundaries, and enterprise integrations.
  • Build governed agentic workflows using LangGraph, Temporal, or custom event-driven state machines with controlled tool calling, sandboxing, and fallback logic.
  • Design production RAG and context systems using hybrid search, reranking, metadata filtering, semantic caching, and document-based signal extraction.
  • Deploy agent services and scheduled workflows using Domino Data Lab, Apache Airflow, Kubernetes, and serverless cloud runtimes.
  • Create offline and online evaluation harnesses for model drift, hallucination, task completion, backtesting, human review, and A/B rollouts.
  • Generalize customer deployments into reusable SDKs, APIs, libraries, UI components, modeling procedures, and architectural playbooks.
  • Embed with business-unit leaders to identify high-value AI opportunities and communicate technical trade-offs, failure modes, and performance outcomes to executives.
  • Mentor engineers and contribute to invention disclosures and patent filings.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
  • Six or more years of relevant experience, including six or more years building production software or models.
  • Demonstrated experience deploying LLM applications, agentic workflows, or tool-calling pipelines.
  • Extensive hands-on experience with frontier LLMs such as Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, and Google Gemini, plus agentic coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot.
  • Strong foundation in statistics and machine learning applied to forecasting, prioritization, optimization, or related problems.
  • Experience designing evaluation harnesses, guardrail frameworks, observability systems, and tracking for latency, token costs, hallucinations, and tracing.
  • Advanced Python and SQL proficiency, with working TypeScript and Node.js proficiency for API integration and backend orchestration.
  • Experience designing APIs and deploying Docker-based containerized services and data workflows on Apache Airflow, Kubernetes, EKS/GKE, Domino Data Lab, AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Ability to independently scope ambiguous initiatives, convert business needs into technical architectures, lead delivery, and present designs to senior executives.
  • Preferred qualifications include a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related technical field.
  • Preferred experience includes enterprise context platforms or search engines, production RAG pipelines, vector databases, hybrid search, dynamic context management, forecasting, mathematical optimization, causal inference, model risk management, explainability, validation, forward-deployed engineering, solutions architecture, technical consulting, telecommunications, network capacity optimization, and capital planning.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement with 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 8 company-paid holidays, up to 6 personal days, paid parental leave, adoption assistance, tuition assistance, vacation, and other rewards.
  • 40 scheduled hours per week.

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Forward Deployed
Verizon

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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